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Charging Schedule for Import Permit Applications
Please note that applications will not be assessed until full payment is received.
AQIS Import Permit assessment and application fees:
Category 1 - (standard) goods:
Assessment for an Import Permit application for standard goods.
1 Assessable Item = $40.00 in addition to applicable electronic lodgement fee or manual lodgement fee
Category 2 - (non-standard) goods:
A product to which a compliance agreement applies; canned pet food; a cell line derived from laboratory animals; cats or dogs, other than the first cat or dog in a consignment; cosmetics; cut flowers; dried herbs, dried spices; food items for human consumption; fruit; herbarium specimens not infected or infested; hides or skins; human therapeutics (private and commercial); human vaccines; laboratory material (proteins, DNA, animal sera); microbes; natural fibres and fibre products; non-organic fertiliser (bulk); plant-based stockfeed samples for in vitro use; plant material, seeds or grains, or both, for in vitro use; seeds or grains for processing or human consumption or both; a cell line derived from a non-laboratory animal; a fermented product that is not a veterinary therapeutic product or a stock food product; a parasite; soil samples; vegetables; water.
1 Assessable Item = $80.00 in addition to applicable electronic lodgement fee or manual lodgement fee
(Maximum time taken is 1 hour), and for each quarter hour, or part of a quarter hour, after the 1-hour period - $35.50
Category 3 - (non-standard) goods:
Herbal teas; herbarium specimens infected and infested plant material and seeds or grains for in vitro use (infected or infested); plant pollen for in vivo use; a micro-organism (possible pathogen); aquaculture feed or bait; wood chips or charcoal for cooking or smoking food; wine barrels.
1 Assessable Item = $140.00 in addition to applicable electronic lodgement fee or manual lodgement fee
(Maximum time taken is 2 hours), and for each quarter hour, or part of a quarter hour, after the 2-hour period - $35.50
Category 4 - (non-standard) goods:
Animal reproductive material; biological control agent; bird seed; live animals, including the first cat or dog in a consignment, but not subsequent cats or dogs in a consignment; plant-based stock feed; plant pathogens for in vivo or in vitro use; seed or plant material for processing into pet food; bulk culture (medium); dried pet food; organic fertiliser.
1 Assessable Item = $200.00 in addition to applicable electronic lodgement fee or manual lodgement fee
(Maximum time taken is 3 hours), and for each quarter hour, or part of a quarter hour, after the 3-hour period - $35.50
Category 5 - (non-standard) goods:
Biological material for in vivo use; a single new master seed; an additional new master seed which is part of a live or inactivated veterinary vaccine; a single new veterinary vaccine that is live or inactivated with a single master seed; a single veterinary vaccine renewal that is live or inactivated.
1 Assessable Item = $260.00 in addition to applicable electronic lodgement fee or manual lodgement fee
(Maximum time taken is 4 hours), and for each quarter hour, or part of a quarter hour, after the 4-hour period - $35.50
Electronic lodgement and assessment of an Import Permit application for standard goods
'Standard goods' means goods (other than live animals and animal reproductive material) of a class that may be imported by a person only if the person has a permit granted under Section 13 of the Act that allows the goods to be imported subject to compliance with conditions specified in the permit.
$75.00 for each application in addition to applicable assessment fees
Electronic lodgement of an ImportPermit application for non-standard goods
(a) live animals and animal reproductive material that are subject to Import Permit conditions, and
(b) goods for which AQIS has no established Import Permit conditions
$75.00 in addition to applicable assessment fees
Manual lodgement or amendment of an Import Permit application
$130.00 for each application in addition to applicable assessment fees