Disclaimer
The information in this standard is provided on the following basis. The phytosanitary requirements found in this standard may be used as the basis of export certification. However, requirements may be changed by importing countries at any time at short notice or with no notice to New Zealand. This information is provided strictly on the basis that the Crown, the Ministry for Primary Industries, its statutory officers, employees, agents and all other persons responsible for or associated with the compilation, writing, editing, approval or publication of the information:
- disclaim any and all responsibility for any inaccuracy, error, omission, lateness, or any other kind of inadequacy, deficiency or flaw in, or in relation to, the information; and
- without limiting (1) above, fully exclude any and all liability of any kind on the part of all of them, to any person or entity that chooses to rely on this information
Compliance with this standard is not to be taken as a guarantee that any particular goods will be granted access to any overseas market.
Last Updated: 19 April 2011
Commodities
Logs
| Import Permits or Declarations | Import permit NOT required. |
| Certification Requirements | Phytosanitary certificate required |
| Prohibited Importations | |
| Bark | |
| Insects | Free from quarantine pests . |
| Fungi | Free from quarantine pests . |
| Soil | |
| Other | |
| Pre-Shipment Inspections | Verification inspection required. |
| Approved Pre-Shipment Treatments | |
| Fumigation | |
| Antisapstain treatments | |
| Insecticide treatments | |
| Heat treatments | |
| Preservative treatments | |
| Concessional Release | None specified for New Zealand. |
| General | No further information available. |
Wood/ Timber – Sawn
| Import Permits or Declarations | Import permit NOT required. |
| Certification Requirements | Phytosanitary certificate required |
| Prohibited Importations | |
| Bark | |
| Insects | Free from quarantine pests . |
| Fungi | Free from quarantine pests . |
| Soil | |
| Other | |
| Pre-Shipment Inspections | Verification inspection required. |
| Approved Pre-Shipment Treatments | |
| Fumigation | |
| Antisapstain treatments | |
| Insecticide treatments | |
| Heat treatments | |
| Preservative treatments | |
| Concessional Release | None specified for New Zealand. |
| General | No further information available. |
Wood/ Timber – Chips
| Import Permits or Declarations | Import permit NOT required. |
| Certification Requirements | Phytosanitary certificate NOT required. |
| Prohibited Importations | |
| Bark | |
| Insects | |
| Fungi | |
| Soil | |
| Other | |
| Pre-Shipment Inspections | None required. |
| Approved Pre-Shipment Treatments | |
| Fumigation | |
| Antisapstain treatments | |
| Insecticide treatments | |
| Heat treatments | |
| Preservative treatments | |
| Concessional Release | None specified for New Zealand. |
| General | No further information available. |
Wood Products – Reconstituted/ Plywood/ LVL/ Veneer
| Import Permits or Declarations | Import permit NOT required. |
| Certification Requirements | Phytosanitary certificate NOT required. |
| Prohibited Importations | |
| Bark | |
| Insects | |
| Fungi | |
| Soil | |
| Other | |
| Pre-Shipment Inspections | None required. |
| Approved Pre-Shipment Treatments | |
| Fumigation | |
| Antisapstain treatments | |
| Insecticide treatments | |
| Heat treatments | |
| Preservative treatments | |
| Concessional Release | None specified for New Zealand. |
| General | No further information available. |
Wood Products – Manufactured
| Import Permits or Declarations | Import permit NOT required. |
| Certification Requirements | Phytosanitary certificate NOT required. |
| Prohibited Importations | |
| Bark | |
| Insects | |
| Fungi | |
| Soil | |
| Other | |
| Pre-Shipment Inspections | None required. |
| Approved Pre-Shipment Treatments | |
| Fumigation | |
| Antisapstain treatments | |
| Insecticide treatments | |
| Heat treatments | |
| Preservative treatments | |
| Concessional Release | None specified for New Zealand. |
| General | No further information available. |
Wood Products – Packaging
| Import Permits or Declarations | Import permit NOT required. |
| Certification Requirements | Wood packaging material and dunnage must be marked in accordance with ISPM 15. Phytosanitary certificate NOT required. |
| Prohibited Importations | |
| Bark | Wood packaging material and dunnage must be made of debarked wood in accordance with ISPM 15. |
| Insects | |
| Fungi | |
| Soil | |
| Other | |
| Pre-Shipment Inspections | |
| Approved Pre-Shipment Treatments | |
| Fumigation | Wood packaging material and dunnage must be treated in accordance with ISPM 15. |
| Antisapstain treatments | |
| Insecticide treatments | |
| Heat treatments | Wood packaging material and dunnage must be treated in accordance with ISPM 15. |
| Preservative treatments | |
| Concessional Release | In addition to exemptions stated in clause 2.1 of ISPM 15, the following is also exempt:
|
| General | Wood packaging material which does not comply shall be treated in accordance with ISPM 15 or destroyed or reshipped with the imported commodity on importer’s request. |
MPI specified Maximum Pest Limits (MPL)
Please note; for all commodities exported to Taiwan requiring MPI phytosanitary certificates, the following levels have been set by MPI to facilitate exports while still meeting the importing country’s minimum requirements for specified quarantine pests and soil.
| Quarantine pests* specified by Taiwan | 0.5% |
| Soil (for all plant products excluding seed for sowing) | 25g / 600unit |
| Soil (seed for sowing) | 0.1% by weight |
* Quarantine pests for Taiwan include organisms identified within:
- quarantine pests sction of this ICPR
- additional declarations
- phytosanitary import permit
Note : The MPL for codling moth in apples destined for Taiwan is nil as defined in Apples to Taiwan Compliance programmeApples to Taiwan Compliance programme .