Manual of Importing
Country Requirements

Requirements set by Australia's agricultural export trading partners

This website sets out the known requirements that exporters and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Department) must meet for products and commodities to be accepted for import into specific overseas countries.

Exporters must meet requirements for products and commodities to be accepted for import into specific overseas countries.

Exporters must also comply with the Export Control Act and associated Rules when exporting commodities from Australia.

For information on how to export from Australia, visit Exporting from Australia.

Meat commodity site  

Meat

Includes fresh meat, processed meat, and animal by-products such as skins, hides, petfood, rendered products and technical products.

Dairy commodity site  

Dairy

Includes milk, milk powder products, butter, cream, cheese and other processed dairy products

Plants commodity site  

Plants

Includes fruit, vegetables, nursery stock, cut flowers and foliage, seeds, grains, stockfeed and timber

Fish commodity site  ​

Fish

Includes finfish, other seafood such as bivalves, crustaceans, echinoderms, gastropods, cephalopods, tunicates and crocodile meat

Live animals commodity site  

Live animals

Includes livestock, companion animals, horses, zoo animals, birds, hatching eggs, fish, bees and other invertebrates, and reproductive material

Eggs commodity site  

Eggs

Includes shell eggs and egg products

Non-prescribed goods commodity site  

Non-prescribed goods

Includes honey and bee by-products, and processed foods

Organics commodity site 

Organics

Includes organics equivalence arrangements