Is it legal to bring board games (made of wood) to Australia?

10/20/2016 2:03:01 AM

If you can prove whatever wooden article you are bringing in, is either polished wood or treated wood, you will be alright. Otherwise, as others have suggested, you may be (most definitely) will have to get your wooden articles fumigated/radiated to ensure no bugs are coming in. And of course, do not forget to declare any wooden item.

10/19/2016 2:04:52 AM

It is legal to bring wooden articles but you MUST declare them,

I just returned from Bali with a few wooden items, we declared them and customs took a look, one of these was fine, the other had some small holes in it that insects create when they burrow in the wood, it was destroyed.

When customs identify a wooden item that is not allowed you have a choice, have it destroyed, or submit it to be fumigated, this costs roughly $100 and takes a week.

Rule is, don’t bring any wooden items unless you want to pay to keep them or they are so cheap you don’t mind losing them.

Always declare.

10/18/2016 11:16:00 PM

From personal experience, I have brought in many wooden items from Papua New Guinea (PNG), which is somewhere they are very strict about checking imports from. The last time I did this two of the wooden stools I brought in had a couple of borer holes so they gave me two choices: Have the stools destroyed or have them treated. It was the same cost to me for both options I paid the price and had them treated. The stools were delivered to my house in a couple of weeks as good as new.

I’d definitely say bring the games in, declare them and even if they find a hole you should be fine.

10/18/2016 10:02:07 AM

You can do very specific queries in the BICON – Australian Biosecurity Import Conditions database.

As an example, I entered chess board, which it did not know, but it gave me 5 suggested links, of which one was Wooden manufactured articles. My guess is this covers your timber board games. There it says among other things:

Each consignment will be subject to an inspection on arrival to verify that the goods are clean and free from any signs of borer holes, live insects, bark and other biosecurity risk material. If biosecurity risk material is found, the consignment will be treated in accordance with a Department of Agriculture and Water Resources approved method, or exported or destroyed at the importer’s expense.

And biosecurity risk material is defined here.

You can dig in deeper for full details.

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