Vietnam — Nuts and Edible Seeds
Vietnam received 49 FDA import refusals in Nuts and Edible Seeds between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 8 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, poisonous substance, and unsafe color additive. 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 nuts and edible seeds from Vietnam
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 60 refusals in the last 3 years, 59 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (34); DNEI — Northeast (11); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (10).
- Riskiest months
- January, July, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (26), poisonous substance (13), poisonous or deleterious substance (9), filth (6), unsafe food additive (6).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (1), FSVP violation (1).
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 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other-Nuts | 29 | 4,609 t | 27.9 | poisonous substance |
| Cashew | 31 | 13,455 t | 10.8 | pesticide residue |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 60 | 9,179 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
- EVR-0195581-9 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. unsafe color additive
- 551-4180180-0 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- AWJ-0314828-0 COCONUT, IN SHELL Import division DWCI. FSVP violation
- HK1-2504802-3 COCONUT, SHELLED Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredpesticide residue
- NLR-4034928-4 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- AQZ-0623761-7 BETEL NUT, IN SHELL Import division DWCI. poisonous substance
- 551-4122985-3 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 551-4100714-3 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 551-4106763-4 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- HK8-0365195-7 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 750-0208165-3 BETEL NUT, SHELLED Import division DNEI. poisonous substance
- 9QG-0059262-3 BETEL NUT, SHELLED Import division DWCI. poisonous substance
- B6S-3515899-0 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B6S-3516104-4 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B6S-3515982-4 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 238-1441749-1 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B6S-3516013-7 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B6S-3515980-8 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B6S-3515981-6 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 572-6926603-7 CASHEW, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 90 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 2026-10-01. To get new ones for Vietnam by email, watch Vietnam.
Vietnam country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →