Vietnam — Fruit and Fruit Products — Fruit-Other
Vietnam received 88 FDA import refusals in Fruit-Other, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 17 in 2025-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, poisonous or deleterious substance, and pesticide residue. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Vietnam, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit-other from Vietnam
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 93 refusals in the last 3 years, 85 were hazard findings and 8 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (42); DSEI — Southeast (41); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (6).
- Riskiest months
- May, October, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (73), pesticide residue (5), poisonous or deleterious substance (4), Salmonella (3), insanitary plant (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- label not conspicuous (4), juice percentage not declared (3), false or misleading label (2).
FDA does not publish how many entries it examines, so no page can state a true probability of refusal; these are the figures that are published.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 17 | 12 | 5 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 15 | 14 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- 1FX-6543817-9 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filth
- 1FX-8357887-3 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PUREES) Import division DWCI. filth
- EJ2-0205565-6 SOURSOP (OTHER FRUIT PUREES) Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 9AR-0446026-7 SOURSOP, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- SCS-3561905-3 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-1064541-2 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- EQF-0068156-1 CHINESE RED DATE (JUJUBES, ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA), DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. pesticide residuefalse or misleading label
- 1FX-0326607-0 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSEI. filth
- E84-0128500-0 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-1429872-1 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PUREES) Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-1551433-2 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- AEK-0481108-8 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-7300416-7 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-8164555-5 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-8274994-3 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DSEI. filth
- 1FX-7784555-9 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-2439521-9 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSEI. filth
- 1FX-3231140-8 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-3986091-8 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-3473564-4 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 141 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-10-21. To get new ones for Vietnam by email, watch Vietnam.
Vietnam country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →