Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) has been made aware of the potential for misinterpretation of a critical piece of the Minimum documentary and import declaration requirements policy (min docs) as issued by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department)
Specifically in relation to Annual Packing Declaration (APD) validity and which parties may issue them.
FTA can confirm the following clarification from the department:
The intent of section 4.5.2 is that the packing declaration must be issued by the exporter who packed the goods in the container, or the supplier who packed the goods in the container, or the packer who packed the goods in the container. A packer is an entity who packs the goods into a container or observes the container being packed for export to an Australian territory.
Sal Milici - Head of Border & Biosecurity - FTA / APSA
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