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Detailed answers to the fumigation requirements and procedures for export goods

Apr / 02 / 2025
BY Chengye International

Detailed answers to the fumigation requirements and procedures for export goods


In the process of exporting goods, the fumigation link is crucial, it is related to whether the goods can be successfully cleared through customs.

First, why fumigation

The main purpose of fumigation is to kill pests, eggs and other harmful organisms in the goods, to prevent these organisms from spreading to other countries with the goods and destroying the local ecological balance.

 

Detailed answers to the fumigation requirements and procedures for export goods

 

What goods need fumigation

1. Wooden packaging materials like wooden boxes, wooden pallets, wooden shafts, wooden barrels, etc.

2. Logs and wood products without processing or simple processing of logs, as well as some solid wood furniture, wooden handicrafts, etc..

3. Some agricultural products such as shelled grains, beans and so on.

Third, the specific requirements of fumigation

1. fumigation agent commonly used fumigation agent is bromomethane (CH₃Br) and phosphine (PH₃).

2. Fumigation time and temperature fumigation time and temperature are interrelated.

3. Fumigation place fumigation must be carried out in a specialized fumigation library or a place with fumigation conditions.

Precautions

1. Advance planning fumigation takes time, companies should plan ahead of the fumigation time, set aside enough operating cycles

2. Goods packaging requirements before fumigation to ensure that the goods packaging is intact, to avoid the fumigation process due to packaging damage caused by the leakage of chemicals or fumigation effects.

3. The authenticity of the certificate must be fumigated through a regular qualified fumigation company and obtain the certificate, do not use false fumigation certificate, once detected by the Customs and Excise Department, will face serious penalties.

Export cargo fumigation requirements and procedures are complex and important, you must strictly comply with friends. Only in this way can our goods cross the border smoothly and start the global trade journey.