United Arab Emirates — All Categories

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United Arab Emirates received 69 FDA import refusals across all food categories between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 13 in 2025-Q3, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are mfr inj, mfr insan, and poisonous. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from United Arab Emirates, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

Of these, 62 were hazard refusals and 7 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

5 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 5 2 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 2 2 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 2 1 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 1 7 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 7 5 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 5 5 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 5 13 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 13 6 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 6 10 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 10 10 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 10 3 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 3

By category, last 156 weeks

Category Rejections Per $1B US imports Most-cited hazard
Spices, Flavors, and Salts 27 salmonella

Recent rejections

Recent weeks

WeekBorder rejections
2026-W380
2026-W370
2026-W360
2026-W350
2026-W342
2026-W331
2026-W320
2026-W310

→ See all FDA import refusals for 2026-W38