BMSB Season 2022 - 23

Effective 1st September 2022 - 30th April 2023 (inclusive)

The Department of Agriculture have officially announced the Seasonal Measures for Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Season for the 2022-23 period.

Effective from "Shipped on Board" date 1st September 2022 until 30th April 2023 inclusive, cargo that is classified as Target Risk that is shipped from Target Risk Countries will be require mandatory treatment as outlined below.

The following changes have been made to the measures for 2022-23:

China – random inspections will apply to goods shipped between 1 September to 31 December (inclusive)
United Kingdom – random inspections will apply to goods shipped between 1 December to 30 April (inclusive)
In addition to the target high risk goods, chapters 94 and 95 will be subject to random inspections for emerging risk countries (FURNITURE & TOYS).
Belarus, Malta, Sweden, & Chile are no longer identified as emerging risk.

The following details are a reminder of the target countries, target goods and factsheet resources for your suppliers. We will continue to distribute this information closer to the beginning of the season.

All of the below information can be found on the Department of Agriculture website.

Target Risk Countries:

Albania	Kosovo
Andorra	Liechtenstein
Armenia	Luxembourg
Austria	Montenegro
Azerbaijan	Moldova
Belgium	Netherlands
Bosnia Herzegovina	Poland
Bulgaria	Portugal
Canada	Republic of North Macedonia
Croatia	Romania
Czechia	Russia
France	Serbia
Japan (vessel surveillance)	Slovakia
Georgia	Slovenia
Germany	Spain
Greece	Switzerland
Hungary	Turkey
Italy	Ukraine
Kazakhstan	United States of America

What are the measures?

Target High Risk Commodities:

Goods that fall within the following tariff classifications have been categorised as target high risk goods and will require mandatory treatment for BMSB risk.

44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

45 - Cork and articles of cork

57 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings

68 - Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials

69 - Ceramic products – including sub chapters I and II

70 – Glass and glass ware

72 - Iron and steel - including sub chapters I, II, III, IV

73 - Articles of iron or steel

74 - Copper and articles thereof

75 - Nickel and articles thereof

76 - Aluminium and articles thereof

78 - Lead and articles thereof

79 - Zinc and articles thereof

80 - Tin and articles thereof

81 - Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof

82 - Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal

83 - Miscellaneous articles of base metals

84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

86 - Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds

87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof

88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof

89 - Ships, boats and floating structures

Target risk goods

Goods that fall within the following tariff classifications have been categorised as target risk goods and will not require mandatory treatment. Target risk goods will however be subject to increased onshore intervention through random inspection.

27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes

28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes - including sub chapters I, II, III, IV and V

29 - Organic chemicals - including sub chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII and XIII

38 - Miscellaneous chemical products

39 - Plastics and articles thereof - – including sub chapters I and II

40 - Rubber and articles thereof

48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard

49 - Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans

56 - Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof

LCL Cargo:

LCL and FAK containers with target high risk goods will be managed at the container level for BMSB risk prior to deconsolidation. If you plan to move cargo via LCL that cannot be subject to heat treatment, Methyl Bromide or Sulfuryl Fluoride it is crucial that our team is aware to be able to instruct our suppliers not to load your cargo with goods subject to those measures. De-consolidation or segregation of goods will not be accepted once loaded into the container.

Important Notes:

Treatment must be completed by Approved Treatment Providers. At current, the list of Approved Offshore Treatment Providers is being updated regularly, however this will be distributed to our teams locally & globally and published HERE
Goods shipped in iso-tanks and as bulk-in-holds of cargo vessels are not subject to the measures
Target high risk goods subject to mandatory offshore treatment that arrive untreated or treated by an unapproved treatment provider in a target risk country, will be directed for export on arrival.
Where target high risk goods are packed and sealed in a six hard sided container in a target risk country prior to 1 September 2022, a sealing declaration will be accepted by the department. The goods must be shipped on board within 21 days of sealing and a Sealing Declaration must be supplied.
Containers that trans-ship target risk countries, that are not opened during trans-shipment will not be subject to the BMSB measures.

More Resources:

Please contact our team if you have any further queries.

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