[hegs]

We are soon to be moving to New Zealand and there seems to be some confusion about what we can bring into the country in the way of foodstuffs in our container.
Has anyone moved recently and taken in tinned good etc.

[Smiler]

Hi Hegs

Welcome to the forum. :cheers

There's masses of info on stuff you can and can't bring here http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/commercial-transport-and-border-management/arriving-by-sea/restricted-items and if you do a forum search you'll find plenty of posts on this too. :D

You can't bring things like honey and bee products, egg products, seeds and so on.

What are you thinking of stocking on before you come over? ;)

[Familyofmonkeys]

As a rule...if something is processed (tins/jars/dried packets) it is generally OK, but there are exceptions like honey products. You can bring your herbs and spices apart from 'whole' ones like whole nutmeg or whole cadamon pods etc. Alcohol is OK as long as it is for personal consumption. If youn have large quantities make sure you inform customs it is your personal collection etc so they don't try and charge you duty.

[Lara Croft]

We packed up at the end of January, and with the exception of alcohol (which had to be itemised), Masons would not let us take anything edible or drinkable. At all.

Jane

[Steadybears]

OH has few favourites he wants us to pack - a special pasta he asks for regularly, bovril (vegetable spread) and a Garlic pepper spice sealed into a bottle?

Would I have to declare them to MAF?

Thanks for the help

[Familyofmonkeys]

OH has few favourites he wants us to pack - a special pasta he asks for regularly, bovril (vegetable spread) and a Garlic pepper spice sealed into a bottle?

Would I have to declare them to MAF?

Thanks for the help

Although you would need to declare these items to MAF, they should not be any cause for problem. If they find you have something that is not declared, you are more likely to have a problem.

Also to add....John Masons told us we couldn't pack any food items, but after checking with MAF (and printing off all our communication to show it was OK) we did.

[Steadybears]

Thanks for that - will contact MAF and make sure odnt want any unnecessary payments at the other end.

[hegs]

We are soon to be moving to New Zealand and there seems to be some confusion about what we can bring into the country in the way of foodstuffs in our container.
Has anyone moved recently and taken in tinned good etc.

Thank you smiler for replying.
We are not actually thinking of stocking up - just want to bring what is in our store cupboard when we are eventually ready to move
Have emailed MAF on advice and are awaiting reply.

[Pip]

yep.. John Mason tell you no food things, but you can bring them - we did and JM just packed them and marked them as food and Maf were fine - I listed them all out on my MAF form and they didn't even look at the food box!.

I brought
all my tinned goods in my cupboard - tomates/bakedbeans/sweetcorn etc
dairy milk/haribo
crisps
bovril
PGtips
oxo cubes
unopened spices
unopened bags of pasta
branston pickle
our wine collection

and quite a few other things which I forget now - including an unopened "make your own sushi kit" given to me as a present

btw- much of the above you can get here anyway - but as we'd paid for the container it made sense and was great fun to have Wotsits and Skips for a short while when our container arrived (that don't cost 3$ for a small bag from the brit store)

bottom line, is JM say no, because its less hassle for them than to explain all the MAF guidelines, but in reality its not a problem

[Steadybears]

Thanks for that Pip - Im off to stack up.

Jayne

[Asli&Mark]

Hello you guys,
What we did was praparing a box that is full of food stuff (the things in the cupboard). We wrote "FOR MAF INSPECTION" on it and declared we were bringing food (also sea shells ect). They got the container and knew where exactly to look, and everything passed even my dried herbs and spices including saffron.

Hope this helps

Asli