Please see below advice that Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) has received from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
The Australian Government is doing all that it can to minimise the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19). This means working to ensure goods, including COVID-19 vaccines can enter Australia as quickly and efficiently as possible, while meeting import requirements. The following information is provided to assist importers to minimise delays in the border clearance process
Critically, you must have a valid import permit before your goods arrive in Australia. If a permit is required and your products arrive without one, you will likely be directed to export or destroy them. If all permit conditions, including documentary requirements, are not met when your goods arrive in Australia, you may be directed to export or destroy them, or there could be significant delays.
COVID-19 vaccines also require Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARGT) registration, with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) before they can be imported.
For further information please refer to the complete Industry Advice Notice 211/2020 HERE
To stay abreast of all developments and notices being issued we remind members that you can also subscribe to receive Industry Advice Notices direct from the department - the department had also started to release newsletters in relation to the BMSB season - to access these click HERE
NOTE: the above link should also be used to UPDATE your current subscriptions
You may also wish to review the latest issue of Biosecurity Matters