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
- 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
- Animal Transport Equipment
- Prefabricated office, accommodation units and caravans
- Machinery and equipment
- Imported sea-going vessels
- Retorted goods for human consumption
- Dried or preserved flowers and foliage
- Mineral and metal ores, rock and sand
- Articles stuffed with dried herbs or seed
- Fat and tallow for human consumption
- Articles and equipment used in water (fresh or sea water)
- Bark for human consumption
- Carpets, clothes, bags and rags
- Horse equipment
- Plant based fabric, textiles or yarn
- Gas Cylinders
- Fertilisers
- Wool
- Temporary Importations
- 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)
- 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
- Protein powders and body building supplements for human consumption
- Coffee for processing or human consumption
- Noodles for human consumption
- Raw jute, jute waste and jute bales for processing
- Plant fibre products and seed handicrafts
- Incense
- Tyres
- Geotextiles for bioremediation
- Oak barrels and chestnut bark hoops
- Timber and timber products
- Casings for human consumption
- Sphagnum moss
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Raw and sun dried tobacco
- Coir peat
- Sawdust and woodchips
- Returning Australian products
- Biodegradable urns
- Archaeological specimens
- Used shipper owned empty containers imported as a good
- Baitfish, aquaculture feed and pet fish food
- Stock feed, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Empty seashells
- Laboratory animal food
- Animal hair and fibre (excluding wool)
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
- Baits, lures, attractants and poisons for agricultural or domestic use
- Metal waste and scrap
- Birdseed
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Fencing, screening material and blinds derived from plants
- Bamboo products
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- Stock feed, stock feed ingredients and stock feed additives (not of plant origin)
- Goods made with rawhide
- Banana fibre articles
- Dried herbs products not for human consumption
- Manure
- Unaccompanied personal effects
- Feathers
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- Potpourri
- Dried Tillandsia spp.
- Biodegradable plant pots
- Timber and Bamboo packaging
- Cotton
- Permitted plant fibres
- Wooden manufactured articles containing bark
- Pine cones
- Wisteria articles
- Thatching grass
- Barkcloth
- Cane and rattan articles
- Dried willow and wicker articles
- Non-Commodity Cargo Clearance