Alerts
Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) mandatory treatment for containerised goods from Italy
Effective from 18 January 2018This notice is of interest to clients in the import and shipping industries, including importers and customs brokers, associated with the importation of containerised Italian goods arriving on or after 17 January 2018.
The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources will introduce further emergency measures to apply to cargo arriving from 17 January 2018 to conclude 30 April 2018 to prevent BMSB arriving into Australia on cargo from Italy.
All other containerised goods from Italy will require mandatory BMSB treatment at an approved arrangement on arrival in Australian territory. Exceptions apply to goods already treated offshore with one of the approved BMSB treatments, or that fall within one of the excluded tariff groups:
Fresh produce (including nursery stock and live plants)
Live animals
Food for human consumption
Seeds for sowing
Further information
Please refer to the department's website for a list of approved treatments for BMSB.
For further information, including specific COLS lodgement advice for these entries, please refer to the relevant Import Industry Advice Notice.
This Alert applies to the following Cases:
- Animal derived glue
- Pet food, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Packing materials and packaging of plants
- Plant material embedded in paper
- Cork and cork products
- Horse equipment
- Geotextiles for bioremediation
- Sawdust and woodchips
- Plant based fabric, textiles or yarn
- Barkcloth
- Coir peat
- Goods for cultural performances and exhibitions
- Feathers
- Bamboo products
- Snails for human consumption
- Rice husk chopping boards, logs and briquettes
- Egg shell ornaments
- Cake mixes
- Plant derived charcoal, wood pellets and briquettes
- Potpourri
- Bioremedial products
- Raw jute, jute waste and jute bales for processing
- Confectionery for human consumption
- Biodegradable urns
- Manure
- Dried Tillandsia spp.
- Pine cones
- Biodegradable plant pots
- Wooden manufactured articles containing bark
- Sphagnum moss
- Soil and articles containing soil
- Grape vine articles
- Cotton
- Thatching grass
- Bark for human consumption
- Banana fibre articles
- Highly refined organic chemicals and substances
- Artificial plants on natural stems
- Plant products for ceremonial and exhibition use
- Cooked biscuits, cooked breads, cooked cakes (including uncooked cheesecakes and cooked mooncakes)
- Casings for human consumption
- Fat and tallow for human consumption
- Peat
- Incense
- Raw and sun dried tobacco
- Plant fibre products and seed handicrafts
- Pet food
- Permitted plant fibres
- Coffee for processing or human consumption
- Dried or preserved flowers and foliage
- Cosmetic and soaps
- Retorted goods for human consumption
- Oak barrels and chestnut bark hoops
- Toys
- Used shipper owned empty containers imported as a good
- Used footwear
- Temporary Importations
- Mineral and metal ores, rock and sand
- Gas Cylinders
- Unaccompanied personal effects
- Metal waste and scrap
- Articles and equipment used in water (fresh or sea water)
- Carpets, clothes, bags and rags
- Used veterinary equipment
- Fertilisers
- Tyres
- Ship or aircraft stores for transhipment
- Cryogenic shippers
- Noodles for human consumption
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Returning Australian products
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- Dried herbs products not for human consumption
- Birdseed
- Synthetic material
- Articles stuffed with dried herbs or seed
- Wisteria articles
- Timber and Bamboo packaging
- Cane and rattan articles
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Timber and timber products
- Prefabricated office, accommodation units and caravans
- Baitfish, aquaculture feed and pet fish food
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
- Goods made with rawhide
- Protein powders and body building supplements for human consumption
- Archaeological specimens
- Fencing, screening material and blinds derived from plants
- Dried willow and wicker articles
- Animal Transport Equipment
- Machinery and equipment
- New or used vehicles, aircraft and parts
- Non-Commodity Cargo Clearance
- Imported sea-going vessels
- Baits, lures, attractants and poisons for agricultural or domestic use
- Stock feed, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Empty seashells
- Stock feed, stock feed ingredients and stock feed additives (not of plant origin)
- Laboratory animal food
- Lanolin and wool grease
- Animal hair and fibre (excluding wool)
- Wool
- Uncanned or unretorted meat for human consumption