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Personal effects and household goods are the unaccompanied items transported into Australia, by a returning resident or a new resident of Australia, via sea or air freight.
To import goods under the tariff code for personal effects, you must be arriving from a place outside Australia, and the…
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From 1 January 2020, the Emergency Plant Pest Response (EPPR) component of the citrus levy and charge, currently set at nil, will increase to $1.05 per tonne or 2.1 cents per 20 kg box. This will take effect in your quarterly return, due 28 April 2020. For people submitting…
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19 May 2016Who does this notice affect?This notice is to inform the prawn import industry regarding approved laboratories available to test for viruses in imported raw frozen prawns. What has changed?…
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14 March 2018PurposeThe purpose of this Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to inform treatment providers of upcoming information sessions about proposed changes to the regulation of treatment providers.…
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10 December 2014
Who does this notice affect?All exporters of live animals, meat, dairy, fish, eggs, prescribed goods and plant material who deal with the Department of Agriculture for export…
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Northern Australia’s vast, sparsely populated 10,000 kilometre coastline is the frontline for many high risk animal and plant pests and diseases. Biosecurity risks can reach Australia through the…
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Farmers can be confident for the future of strong traceability standards across the board, thanks to the trial of data enabled traceability concepts and a new traceability protocol.
As part of the first of three trials, Food Agility partnered with industry to develop the Australian Agricultural…
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We recently concluded the Hitchhiker Pest Awareness campaign: I’m in the business of biosecurity. Its goal was to raise awareness to help protect Australia’s agriculture, economy, and way of life from invasive pests that can enter our country via shipping containers and imported goods.With climate…
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A workshop in Fiji this month will seek to strengthen biosecurity in the Pacific by developing a new strategy to manage risks associated with sea container movements.The strategy aims to reduce the global spread of hitchhiker pests across the Pacific region via the sea container pathway. These…
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The risk to Australia
Weeds cost the Australian economy billions of dollars in control measures and lost income each year. They reduce agricultural production by competing with crops, introducing crop diseases and restrict our ability to trade internationally by contaminating crops and wool.…
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