If you are a licenced livestock exporter or export animal reproductive material, you must use Tracking Animal Certification for Export (TRACE) to:

• draft, submit and vary your Notice of Intention (NOI) application
• view your export licence (livestock exporters).

We use TRACE to manage and process NOI applications. We also use TRACE to manage regulatory information about livestock export licences, registered establishments and accredited veterinarians.

Director Engagement and International Plant Health

The Australian Government is working with our Pacific neighbours to improve trade and biosecurity in the region. We are better together and can achieve more this way.

Together we can:

• stop the spread of pests and diseases
• maintain, and expand market access opportunities
• secure sustainable food systems across the region.

Here are a few of the ways we are supporting our partners.

To successfully export to Australia, you need to understand why biosecurity maters and what you need to do to meet our biosecurity requirements.

Each year around 2.5 million shipping containers arrive in Australia from all over the world. This puts not only our country but the countries we trade with, at risk of incursions from invasive pests and diseases. Some of these pests and diseases can wipe out entire crops, kill animals, destroy the environment and threaten livelihoods.

Invasive pests and diseases can cause crops to fail and livestock to die. This can destroy peoples’ livelihoods.

Australia has a rigorous biosecurity system. It protects our country, countries in our region and countries we trade with.

To prevent pests and diseases from entering Australia, we: