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