Things To Declare Arriving New Zealand
What are the things to declare? What are the risk goods? What are the must declare things when arriving in New Zealand? If you are in doubt, declare them to prevent heavy fine.
Things To Declare Arriving New Zealand
- Any food – Cooked, uncooked, fresh, preserved, packaged or dried. Such as, fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, seafood, dairy products, dried mushrooms/fungi, honey or honey products, seeds for human consumption and for processing into food, nuts, spices, herbs, and un-popped popcorn, dried, cooked, or preserved fruit and vegetables.
- Animals or animal products – Including meat, dairy products, fish, honey, bee products, eggs, feathers, shells, raw wool, skins, bones or insects. Such as, Chinese or Asian medicine, cosmetics, health supplements and medicines, shells and clams, ivory, turtle shell items, coral, products made from snakeskin or whalebone, souvenirs made from animal parts.
- Plants or plant products – Fruit, flowers, seeds, bulbs, wood, bark, leaves, nuts, vegetables, parts of plants, fungi, cane, bamboo or straw, including for religious offerings or medicinal use. Such as, dried and fresh flowers, plant cuttings, items made of bamboo, cane, rattan, coconut, straw, items made of wood, for example, drums, carvings, masks, weapons, or tools, pine cones, any souvenirs made from plant material, herbal medicines, health supplements, and homeopathic remedies
religious offerings. - Other biosecurity risk items – Including animal medicines, biological cultures, organisms, soil or water.
- Equipment used with animals, plants or water – Including for gardening, beekeeping, fishing, water sport or diving activities. Such as, any footwear used outside of urban areas (should be cleaned prior to arrival and be free of soil and seeds), tents and any camping equipment, all camping foods, hunting gear, including clothing and backpacks, gardening equipment, waders, fishing rods, lines, hooks, flies, diving equipment and wetsuits, clothing, footwear and tools used for work in industries such as horticulture, viticulture (wine production), apiculture (beekeeping), aquaculture (fish farming), and forestry.
Bringing Food Or Products For Personal Use
Most of the foods are allowed to bring into New Zealand, but they must be declared. The MPI officials at the border will approve product items that matches the criteria below:
- Commercially prepared and packaged.
- Shelf-stable (the food will still be edible for at least 4 months without refrigeration)
- Unopened.
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