[alanc]

I'm airfreightng a few personal belongings to NZ and am wondering what the situ is with cane products - cane blinds, chairs, baskets. Have read somewhere that these will have to be fumigated on arrival. Does anyone have any experience of this? Any idea of the cost involved?

[willsken]

We took a fair amount of wicker bits and OH painted them with this clear varnish stuff that you couldn't even see when it dried. As it turned out MAFF looked at them and didn't seem at all bothered. :roll

[Super_BQ]

I had a friend send a wooden carved statue (30cm x 18cm) from Bali through the post office. Well it got held up by MAF in Auckland. There was a $30 charge I had to pay in order to get it fumigated before they will release it and forward it to my address. Payment was only accepted by sending a cheque payment for some reason.

[Familyofmonkeys]

We brought over loads of rattan and sea grass stuff. Cleaned them as best we could. MAF looked at then, but no problems at all. If you say on you're MAF declaration forms how you cleaned stuff, they are supposed to be less picky.

[jubjub]

We bought seagrass and wicker, they were checking for dust & bugs more than anything, so make sure its all clean! I hoovered ours before packing.