Vietnam — Fruit and Fruit Products
Vietnam received 113 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 17 in 2025-Q2, with the trend rising year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, pesticide residue, and poisonous or deleterious substance. 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 and fruit products from Vietnam
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 119 refusals in the last 3 years, 101 were hazard findings and 18 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (59); DSEI — Southeast (44); DNEI — Northeast (9).
- Riskiest months
- May, April, October, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (73), pesticide residue (15), poisonous or deleterious substance (9), Salmonella (3), bulking agent added (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- inadequate process control (6), label not conspicuous (4), juice percentage not declared (3).
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 | 10 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 17 | 12 | 5 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 15 | 14 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 15 | 8 | 7 |
| 2026-Q3 | 17 | 15 | 2 |
| 2026-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | 23 | 708 t | 480.4 | pesticide residue |
| Fruit-Other | 93 | — | — | filth |
| Citrus | 2 | — | — | nutrition labeling |
| Stone-Fruit | 1 | — | — | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 25 | 1,205 t |
"1 refusal per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
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
- EVR-0192417-9 PASSION FRUIT, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DSEI. color not declared
- FY1-4096261-1 DURIAN, DURION (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 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
- BQK-2584886-1 DURIAN, DURION (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- SCS-1551433-2 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- 231-6437857-9 LYCHEE, LICHEE, LITCHI, LEECHEE (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSEI. inadequate process control
- AEK-0481108-8 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSEI. filth
- EQF-0067363-4 DURIAN, DURION (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 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
Data and downloads
Download all 184 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 →