Export

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Find out how to export goods from New Zealand to other countries. Check the exporting requirements for food and beverages, timber and wood products, animals, ACVMs, and other products.

In this section

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Exporting from NZ: how it works

How to start, MPI's role, getting access to an overseas market, fees and charges, stats, get help

Meeting NZ standards for export

Plans and programmes, laboratory programme, PHSIN, official export devices, non-conformances, food safety in transit

Export requirements

OMARs, export certificates, and FYI documents. Requirements differ depending on the country and product

Register as an exporter

If you need to register, how to apply, and your obligations

Exporting animal food

Livestock feed and pet food

Exporting food and beverages

Dairy, eggs, fruit and vegetables, wine, honey, infant formula, meat and poultry, halal products

Exporting wool, hides, trophies, and rendered animal products

Animal trophies, rendered animal products, wool, skin, and hides

Exporting live animals

Livestock, bees, poultry, pets, semen, and embryos

Exporting grains and seeds for sowing

Steps to exporting, and meeting phytosanitary (plant health) requirements

Exporting live plants and laboratory plant products

Nursery stock, fresh and dried flowers, peat, composts, plant microorganisms, biological products, lab specimens

Exporting agricultural compounds

Agricultural chemicals, fertilisers, vertebrate toxic agents (poisons)

Exporting timber and wood products

Responsibilities of wood exporters and using wood packaging for exports

Exporting veterinary medicines

Antibiotics, vaccines, and shampoos for animals

Selling through e-commerce

Requirements to meet if you sell goods to overseas customers online

Animal product exporter registration form (AP1)

Registration as a New Zealand exporter (or as a New Zealand agent acting for a foreign exporter) with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is required under section 54 of the Animal Products Act 1999.