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  • Import
    • Before you import goods
      • Seasonal measures for Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB)
        • Guidance factsheets for conducting BMSB treatments
        • Preparing to import BMSB goods
        • BMSB Import scenarios FAQs
        • Safeguarding arrangements
        • Management of LCL/FAK containers
        • What happens to your goods on arrival
        • Management of vessels
      • How to import goods
        • Working with the import cargo and shipping industry
      • Preparing for import
        • Treating cargo outside Australia
          • Australian Fumigation Accreditation Scheme
          • AusTreat
          • Ethylene Oxide Offshore Treatment Providers Scheme
            • Pre-Shipment Treatment Import Certificate
          • Offshore Irradiation Treatment Providers Scheme
          • Pre-Border Biosecurity Treatment Providers
        • Sea container hygiene system
        • Specifications for sea freight container inspection stands
        • Cargo containers: biosecurity aspects and procedures
      • Sending your goods
        • Airports
          • First Points of Entry – information for arriving aircraft and goods
          • First points of entry - airport operator requirements
        • Seaports
      • Returning Australian products
      • Self assessed clearance cargo: how we work with industry
      • Temporary imports and events
      • Exhibitions, sporting, cultural and other events
    • Arrival of goods in Australia
      • Clearance and inspection
        • Abandoned goods notice
        • Air courier fees
        • Cargo compliance verification
        • Documentary requirements for imported goods
          • Lodgement of import documentation via email
          • Entity Identifier (AEI)
        • Clearance of cargo containers
        • Container and break bulk discharge
          • Notification form for container and break bulk arrival/s
        • Compliance-Based Intervention Scheme (CBIS)
        • Highly Compliant Importer (HCI) scheme
        • Request for biosecurity inspection at non-Approved Arrangement site
        • Request for inspection form
        • Request for permission to dispose of goods/conveyance
      • Approved arrangements
        • Automatic Entry Processing (AEP)
        • Applying for an approved arrangement
        • Third party assessors
        • Changes and variation to an approved arrangement
        • Suspending or revoking an approved arrangement
        • Variations, changes, suspensions and revocations to class 19 approved arrangements
        • Fit and proper person test
        • Annual charge - Approved arrangements
        • Approved arrangements general policies
        • Approved arrangements glossary
        • Imported biologicals
          • Responsibilities of AA site where imported biologicals are used in vivo
          • Where to get a QAP/in-vivo application form
        • Conditions for operating approved arrangements
          • Compliance classifications for approved arrangements class 19
          • Approved arrangement class 19.2 commodities
          • Broad spectrum disinfectants and sanitisers for use in approved arrangements
        • Approved arrangement search tool
        • Training and accreditation for approved arrangements
      • Post entry quarantine
        • Post Entry Biosecurity System User Guide
        • PEQ reservations questions and answers
      • Treatments, fumigants and providers
        • Biosecurity risk treatment guide
        • Biosecurity treatment result templates
        • Methodologies and documents for biosecurity treatments
          • Methyl bromide fumigation methodology – Prepare now for 2025 update
        • Sulfuryl fluoride detection and monitoring providers
      • Check cargo, containers and vessels for pests
        • Asian gypsy moth
        • Asian longhorned beetle
        • Asian tiger mosquito
        • Black spined toad
        • Brown mulberry longhorn beetle
        • Brown marmorated stink bugs
        • Burnt pine longicorn beetle
        • Country Action List (CAL) and risk vessels
          • Request to have CAL cargo transhipped without inspection form
        • Formosan subterranean termite
        • Giant African snail
        • Giant honey bee
        • Japanese sawyer beetle
        • Khapra beetle
        • Lesser auger beetle
        • Pine wilt nematode
        • Plant diseases
        • Weeds and seeds
    • Industry advice notices
      • 2025
      • 2024
      • 2023
      • 2022
      • 2021
    • Import fees and charges
    • Import forms
    • Online services and systems
      • Biosecurity Portal
        • Set up secure access to the Portal
        • Portal support
        • New release information
      • External Verification for eCertificates (EVE)
      • Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON)
        • BICON import permits
          • Importing COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) kits
          • Fit and proper test for import permit applicants
          • Standard permits for biological products
          • Importing test kits for foot and mouth disease or other notifiable animal diseases
          • Importing nucleic acid (genetic material), including synthetic nucleic acid
        • BICON software developers guide
        • Charges for import permits
        • Support using BICON
        • Register an account in BICON
        • Review of plant, animal and biological import conditions
      • Broker reports
      • Cargo Online Lodgement System (COLS)
        • COLS support
        • Lodging import documents
        • COLS minimum system operating requirements
        • COLS software developers guide
        • COLS registration information
      • Contingency arrangements for system outages
      • Electronic Certification (eCert) for imports
      • Approved Arrangement Management Product (AAMP)
      • Postcode delivery classifications
      • STEPS Program
    • Importing goods
      • Biological products
        • Application to change the end use of imported biological goods (repurposing)
        • Biological products forms
        • Biological Consultative Group
        • Checklist for importing biological materials
          • Animal Feed (including pet food, stockfeed, aquaculture feed and bait) checklist
          • Importing laboratory materials for use in non-laboratory animals
        • How to import animal derivatives and microbial goods into Australia - general information for importers
          • Application for transfer of biosecurity risk material
          • How to complete an Application to Import Biological Materials
        • Questions and Answers
      • Cats and dogs
      • External Territories
        • Indian Ocean Territories (IOT)
          • Import conditions for solanaceous produce
        • Norfolk Island plant biosecurity import conditions
        • Application for permit: External territories
        • Import conditions for public consultation
      • Fertiliser
        • Chemical and mined fertiliser
        • Level 1 gold supply chains
        • Organic fertiliser
      • Food
        • How to import food
          • Food Import Compliance Agreements
            • FICA audits
        • Inclusion of food safety requirements in BICON
        • Import requirements by food type
          • Importing food from New Zealand
          • Arachnids
          • Beef and beef products
          • Beef and beef products - raw
          • Berries
          • Bivalve molluscs
          • Caffeine products - pure and highly concentrated
          • Cassava chips
          • Cereal grains and cereal products
          • Cheese
          • Cheese - raw milk
          • Coconut and coconut meat
          • Coconut milk drinks
          • Crustaceans
          • Crustaceans - cooked
          • Finfish - processed
          • Fish - fresh, chilled, frozen - aquaculture
          • Fish - histamine susceptible
          • Fruit
          • Fungi - prohibited
          • Ham - uncooked slow dry cured
          • Hemp seeds and oil
          • Herbs - dried
          • Honey
          • Human milk and human milk products
          • Infant formula - powdered
          • Insects
          • Kava
          • Meat - processed and cooked
          • Meat - processed and uncooked
          • Meat and edible offal
          • Milk - dried
          • Novel food (non-traditional food)
          • Mini jelly cups containing konjac
          • Oil - Edible plant oil
          • Paprika
          • Peanuts
          • Pepper - dried
          • Pistachios
          • Plants - prohibited
          • Pomegranate arils
          • Poultry meat - cooked
          • Poultry meat and offal products
          • Poultry pate, paste and liver
          • Seaweed - brown
          • Sesame seeds and sesame seed products
          • Soy bean curd
          • Soy milk curd
          • Sports food - formulated supplementary
          • Tofu
          • Vegetables
          • All other food and beverages
        • Documents and declarations
          • Full Import Declarations
          • Declaring the producer of imported food
          • IFIS importer declarations
        • Inspection and testing
          • Imported Food Inspection Scheme
          • Book a laboratory
          • Food sampling
          • Failing food reports
          • Reconsideration and review of decisions
          • Holding orders
            • Previous years
          • Surveys and data
        • Appointed analysts
          • Testing imported food samples
          • Conditions for appointment as an analyst
        • Certification
          • Mandatory foreign government certification
          • Voluntary foreign government certification
          • Food safety management certificates
        • Notices
        • Legislation
      • Live animals and reproductive material
        • Animals on vessels
        • Application to import
        • Cats and dogs
        • Fees and charges
        • Fertile hatching eggs (poultry)
        • Horses
          • Importing horses - Notices to Industry and Forms
        • Invertebrates
        • Laboratory animals
        • Live aquarium (ornamental) fish
          • Approved Aquarium Chemicals, Treatments and Antibiotics
        • Livestock
        • Pet birds
        • Pigeons
        • Rabbits
        • Reproductive material (semen and embryos)
          • Importing livestock and equine reproductive material
        • Transit and transhipment of animals through Australia
        • Unique or exotic pets
        • Zoo animals
      • Major resources and energy sector
        • Biosecurity Management Plan Template
        • Industry Cargo Inspection Report template
        • Industry Vessel Cleanliness Inspection Report Template
        • Sail-Away Report template
      • Motor vehicles, motorcycles and machinery
      • Movement advice animal transport equipment
      • Plants and plant products
        • Bulk grain
          • Bulk grain guidance and templates
          • Managing the biosecurity risks of imported bulk grain
        • Cut flowers and foliage
          • Managing pests
          • Supply chain management system requirements
          • Importing cut flowers for commercial use guide
        • Food, drink and supplements
        • Fresh produce
        • Live plants
          • Approved sources of Phalaenopsis
          • Approved sources of tissue cultures free of media
          • Emergency measures for Xylella
          • Live plant forms
        • Managing plant imports biosecurity risk
        • Plant-based animal feed
          • Guide to engaging and undertaking third party audits of processed plant-based stockfeed facilities
          • Infographic - importing processed plant-based animal feed
          • Plant-based animal feed and fertiliser forms
          • Requirements for facilities manufacturing and exporting processed plant-based stockfeed and their ingredients to Australia
        • Plant products applied to soils and plants
        • Seeds for planting
          • Applications for approval of new phytosanitary treatments for seeds
          • Coversheet for seed for planting consignments
          • Department approved seed purity testing laboratories
          • Emergency measures: Tomato brown rugose fruit virus
          • Emergency measures for tomato and capsicum seed: Tomato mottle mosaic virus Questions and Answers
          • International Clean Seed Pathway Workshop
          • Pathogen test request form
          • Reviewing laboratory test reports checklists
          • Seed contaminants and tolerance tables
          • Vegetable seeds policy review
        • Plant research material
        • Processing imported plant material in Australia
        • Timber, bamboo and wood products
          • Treatments for timber and timber products
            • Timber permanent preservative treatment requirements
              • Approved timber permanent preservative formulations
              • Timber preservation standards
          • Canadian Sawn Wood Certification Program (CSWCP)
          • Imports for non-commercial (personal) use
          • Types of timber, bamboo, and related products
          • Non-standard import permits for timber and plant products not for human consumption
      • Timber and bamboo packaging
        • Bark on timber packaging and dunnage
        • ISPM 15 for solid wood packaging
      • Uncooked prawns
        • Par-cooking BBC prawns
        • Uncooked prawn consignments
      • Urban search and rescue taskforces

Import industry advice notices

​The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, together with other Australian government departments, is responsible for operations related to importing goods to Australia. The department provides updates and notices that are useful to industry.

​​​The department manages biosecurity controls to minimise the risk of exotic pests and diseases entering the country. The department imposes fees and charges on import and shipping industries to cover the costs of maintaining national biosecurity operations.

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Notices to Industry​

  • Import industry advice notices 2025
  • Import industry advice notices 2024
  • Import industry advice notices 2023
  • Import industry advice notices 2022
  • Import industry advice notices 2021
  • Import industry advice notices 2020
  • Import industry advice notices 2019​​
  • Import industry advice notices 2018​
  • Import industry advice notices 2017​
  • Import industry advice notices 2016​

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Page last updated: 17 January 2025

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