Steps to Confirm Your Products’ Export Eligibility

Australia’s Department of Agriculture and Water Resources offers complete guidance to exporters for the smooth export documentation process. In order to ensure that your products are eligible for export (in other words, your products have met all important export quality requirements), you must be ready with all necessary documentary proofs. Here are some of the top requirements that the Department requires every exporter to fulfil.

Declaration of Compliance

As an exporter, you must provide the evidence that all the products you are planning to export to the foreign countries comply with the Export Control Act of 1982. For this, you need to prepare the decorations of compliance for each and every product category in the consignment.

Product Test Results

The products you wish to export must undergo a variety of inspections and tests for their export quality evaluation. This includes the products tests by the National Association of Testing Authorities. The results obtained from these tests must confirm that the export requirements as well as the company’s release criterions have been fulfilled.

Export Permit

You must raise the request for permit at the prescribed time before the intended date of shipment. You must essentially have the export permit issued before the goods are exported from the Australian shores.

Importing Country Requirements

Another important requirement is that the goods you export precisely meet the importing country’s requirements. For example, if you are exporting plants and plants based products, you must obtain and produce the Phytosanitary Certificate for export. If the goods consist of animals and animals based products, you must apply for the Health Certificate. For more information about the importing country requirements, you can refer to the Manual of Importing Country’s Requirements available with the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources.

Product Export Chain Requirements

It is the duty of the exporter to ensure that the products to be exported remain export quality compliant throughout the export chain. For example, the products should not have any quality compromises right from the procurement of ingredients to production to storage and so on. Also, if the products require cold storage throughout the export process, the exporter must ensure that the cold chain requirements are fulfilled until the products reach the final destination.

Make sure you maintain an export checklist so that none of these requirements is skipped.