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
- Snails for human consumption
- Rice husk chopping boards, logs and briquettes
- Egg shell ornaments
- Cake mixes
- Bioremedial products
- Confectionery for human consumption
- Manure
- Soil and articles containing soil
- Highly refined organic chemicals and substances
- Plant products for ceremonial and exhibition use
- Cosmetic and soaps
- Toys
- Used footwear
- Used veterinary equipment
- Cryogenic shippers
- Synthetic material
- Lanolin and wool grease
- Peat
- Barkcloth
- Geotextiles for bioremediation
- Sawdust and woodchips
- Animal Transport Equipment
- Prefabricated office, accommodation units and caravans
- Machinery and equipment
- Imported sea-going vessels
- Sphagnum moss
- Retorted goods for human consumption
- Permitted plant fibres
- Dried or preserved flowers and foliage
- Oak barrels and chestnut bark hoops
- Mineral and metal ores, rock and sand
- Articles stuffed with dried herbs or seed
- Dried willow and wicker articles
- Fat and tallow for human consumption
- Used shipper owned empty containers imported as a good
- Articles and equipment used in water (fresh or sea water)
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Bark for human consumption
- Carpets, clothes, bags and rags
- Tyres
- Horse equipment
- Plant based fabric, textiles or yarn
- Coir peat
- Casings for human consumption
- Gas Cylinders
- Fertilisers
- Archaeological specimens
- Timber and timber products
- Wooden manufactured articles containing bark
- Unaccompanied personal effects
- Feathers
- Wool
- Wisteria articles
- Temporary Importations
- Cane and rattan articles
- Plant derived charcoal, wood pellets and briquettes
- Uncanned or unretorted meat for human consumption
- Goods for cultural performances and exhibitions
- Cooked biscuits, cooked breads, cooked cakes (including uncooked cheesecakes and cooked mooncakes)
- Pine cones
- New or used vehicles, aircraft and parts
- Artificial plants on natural stems
- Pet food
- Ship or aircraft stores for transhipment
- Cork and cork products
- Grape vine articles
- Returning Australian products
- Birdseed
- Protein powders and body building supplements for human consumption
- Dried Tillandsia spp.
- Cotton
- Raw and sun dried tobacco
- Coffee for processing or human consumption
- Noodles for human consumption
- Timber and Bamboo packaging
- Bamboo products
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- Stock feed, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Baits, lures, attractants and poisons for agricultural or domestic use
- Stock feed, stock feed ingredients and stock feed additives (not of plant origin)
- Metal waste and scrap
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- Raw jute, jute waste and jute bales for processing
- Potpourri
- Plant fibre products and seed handicrafts
- Fencing, screening material and blinds derived from plants
- Banana fibre articles
- Biodegradable plant pots
- Thatching grass
- Incense
- Biodegradable urns
- Dried herbs products not for human consumption
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Non-Commodity Cargo Clearance
- Baitfish, aquaculture feed and pet fish food
- Laboratory animal food
- Empty seashells
- Animal hair and fibre (excluding wool)
- Goods made with rawhide
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items