22 April 2026
Who does this notice affect?
This notice affects importers of consignments of plant products and seeds, customs brokers, freight forwarders, and peak industry bodies in cargo.
This notice also affects international trading partners, such as National Plant Protection Organisations, exporters and offshore treatment providers. An official Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) notification has been published to notify of this change.
What is changing?
In IIAN 51-2026, Australia notified trading partners of the re-classification of eight countries as khapra beetle target-risk countries effective 30 April 2026, including Turkmenistan.
After consideration of additional information provided by Turkmenistan, Australia has determined that Turkmenistan does not meet the criteria for designation as a khapra beetle target-risk country. Turkmenistan will therefore remain as a non-target risk khapra beetle country, and the existing emergency measures for non-target risk khapra beetle countries will continue to apply to plant products exported from Turkmenistan to Australia.
The following seven remaining countries will be re-classified as target-risk countries on 30 April 2026 as originally notified: Angola, Chad, Guinea, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Tanzania.
Further information
For further information, please contact Plant Import Operations via email at imports@aff.gov.au (please title the subject line of the email with “Plant T2 – Khapra”).