Industry Notification: Change in Declaration Requirements for Importers

What's the change?

As of 1 April 2021, all import declarations for products listed in Chapter 2-22 of the Working Tariff Document must include a two-letter Intended Use Declaration. This covers all products, not just products intended to be used or sold as food.

If an Intended Use Declaration is not made for the Trade Single Window import lodgement, it will still be processed by New Zealand Customs Service and Biosecurity New Zealand. However, the imported products/s cannot be released in the system by New Zealand Food Safety until the Intended Use Declaration is completed.

One of these eight approved codes must be used in the Intended Use Declaration:

HC – Sale for human consumption            TS – Trade sample not for sale

AC – Animal consumption                           PU – Personal use

FP – Further processing                               RE – Import for re-export

LA – Laboratory analysis                              SS – Seed for sowing

Please ensure, from 1 April 2021, that all import entries include the two-letter Intended Use Declaration.

For more details

For more details, see New Zealand Food Safety’s guidance about how to make correct import declarations and prevent imports from being unnecessarily delayed: Guidance: Change in Declaration Requirements for Importers.