TRACES import leaves Country of Production on "No country selection" — why, and the fix

Two import buttons, two behaviours

The top-level Import button (next to "Add Production Place", beside Export) reads the whole file: it fills the producer name, the Country of Production, the place description and the geometry from your GeoJSON in one go.

The Import GeoJSON inside "Add Production Place" reads only the geometry and the description. The country field stays on "No country selection" and must be set by hand — a hand-picked dropdown that silently overrides whatever your supplier put in the file.

The fix is one habit: always use the top-level Import button. We tested both paths with the same file to confirm the asymmetry.

Make sure your file actually carries the country

For the top Import path to fill the field, the file needs a clean two-letter ISO code ("ProducerCountry": "BR"). Supplier files rarely have that — they say Brasil, BRA, or nothing. DDSpass normalises the country to ISO2 on every plot (and flags plots whose coordinates do not sit in the declared country at all). It also converts Excel, KML/KMZ and Shapefile sources in the same pass — in your browser, nothing uploaded.

Questions

Why is Country of Production empty after my GeoJSON import?

You most likely imported through "Add Production Place" → Import GeoJSON, which reads only the geometry. Use the top-level Import button next to "Add Production Place" instead — it fills the country from the file.

Does the country written in the file matter at all?

Yes, twice over: the top-level Import fills the form from it, and the country drives the deforestation-risk benchmark for the whole declaration. A wrong or missing country in the file is worth fixing before you import.

Which TRACES build was this verified on?

Build EUDR 8.2.0.2 on the official ACCEPTANCE environment (July 2026), by importing the same file through both paths.