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