VEHICLE.ALL - VI .2 August 2017 Page 1 of 5 Import Health Standard for Vehicles, Machinery and Tyres
Short Name: VEHICLE-ALL
August 2017: New measures for "new and used vehicles and machinery" from Italy have been issued. 
Refer to clause 4.4.  
December 2014: New measures for "new and used vehicles and machinery" from the United States of 
America have been issued. Refer to clause 4.3. 
MPI has issued  CTO direction s pursuant to section  27(1) (d )(iii) ap provi ng a treatment and condition  
for "new and used vehicles and machinery" from the United States of America as follows:  
 Treatment  with sulfuryl fluoride 16g/m3@ I 0OC or greater for 12 hou rs with a 50% end
point reading  has been approved  (CTO  Direction  2017 0038 ).  This treatment  rate is a
minimum and any sul furyl  fluoride  treatment  that is undertaken with a higher chemical rate,
temperature or hours is acceptable .
 All approved treatments specified under IHS VEHICLE.ALL for the USA have a maximum
post treatment storage period of 96 hours before shipment except for the States of
California, Or egon and Washington  144 hours is allowed ( CTO Direction 20160077 ).
 For consignments shipped from the state of Alaska, t reatment for the brown marmorated
stink bug (BMSB) is not required as it is known not to occur. This also applies to Alaskan
cargo  transhipped through other USA p orts, as long as the cargo does not leave the port
(CTO Direction 20160067 ).
Note: These changes will be incorporated into the IHS as part of the review currently underway.  
VI .2 Issued 25 August 2017 
VI .1 Issued 23 December 2014 
First Issued October 2009  
Issued by the Ministry for Primary Industries 
PO Box 2526 
Wellington 6011 
New Zealand 
Importers are strongly advised to familiarise themselves with this IHS and the associated guidance document and to seek MPI 
guidance if they are unclear on any part, prior to undertaking any activities relating to the importation of vehicles, machinery 
or tyres. 
 VEHICLE.ALL - VI .2 August 2017  Page 2 of 5 Issuing Authority  
This Impo rt Health Standard (IHS) for Vehicles, Machinery and Tyres (VEHICLE.ALL) is re -issued under section 
24A of the Biosecurity Act 1993 (the Act).  
This IHS revokes and replaces the fol lowing IHS*  
 Import Health Standard for Vehicles, Machinery and Tyres (VEHICLE.ALL) issued 23 December 2014  
Dated at Wellington this 25th day of August 2017.  
 
Peter Thomson  
Director, Plants, Food and Environment  
Regulation and Assurance  
Ministry for Primary Industries  
(Issued under delegated authority)  
Version number: 1.1  
For all matters relating to the interpretation, review and amendment of this IHS, please contact:  
Biosecurity and Environment Group  
Import Health Standard for Vehicles, Machinery and  Tyres  
Ministry for Primary Industries  
PO Box 2526  
Wellington 6011 
New Zealand  
Fax: 64 4 894 0228  
Email:  standards@mpi.qovt.nz  
For all matters relating to the operation of this IHS, including inspections, audits and treatments, please contact your 
local MP) office.  
This IHS is accessible on:  
http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/imports/non -organic/standards/vehicle -all.htm  
 
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 VEHICLE.ALL - VI .2 August 2017  Page 3 of 5 THE STANDARD  
1. Introduction  
In accordance with section 22 of the Biosecurity Act 1993, this import health standard specifies the 
requirements to be met for the effective management of risks associated with the importation of 
vehicles/machinery/tyres before they may be imported, moved from a biosecurity control area or a transitional 
facility, or given a biosecurity clearance.  
Vehicles/ machinery/tyres that do not comply with the requirements of this standard will be decontaminated by 
a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) -approved means prior to release or may be reshipped or destroyed  
A biosecurity clearance, pursuant to section 26 of the Bios ecurity Act 1993, will be issued when 
vehicles/machinery/tyres meet all the requirements of this import health standard.  
2. Biosecurity Requirements  
All vehicles/machinery/tyres imported into New Zealand must be clean, internally and externally.  
3. Information  
All vehicles, machinery and tyres must be accompanied by CTO -approved documentation stating the following 
information:  
  Identification (e.g., vehicle identification number (VIN));  
  Make and model (applies to whole vehicles and units of machinery only);  
  Port of origin;  
 Shipment details, including container number (if applicable);  
 Manifest of inner cargo, including number and type of tyres (if applicable);  
 Name of consignor, name of consignee and consignee's full address;  
 For new vehicles, new machinery and new tyres, information must be made available to MPI by the 
importer describing/showing that the risks of biosecurity contamination have been mitigated between 
manufacture and export.  
4. Specific Requirements  
4.1 The following c ategories of vehicles/machinery must be fumigated' (or treated by other CTO -approved means) 
prior to receiving biosecurity clearance:  
 Used vehicle parts (containerised), including those imported for dismantling,  
 Used tyres (deflated or not on rims).  
4.2 Used wire ropes attached to agricultural, forestry and horticultural vehicles/machinery must be heat 
treated (or treated by other CTO -approved means) prior to receiving biosecurity clearance.  
http.•//www.biosecuritv.govt.nz]files/regs/stds/bnz -std-abtrt.pdf  
 
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4.3 This clause applies to all vehicles and machinery sourced and shipped from the United States of 
America.  
Sea freight - All new and used vehicles and machinery imported via sea freight must be:  
1. Treated with:  
a. Heat (600 C / 20 minutes in the coldest location on the vehicle);  
or 
b. Methyl bromide (48gm/24hrs/10 -15 0C or 40gm/24hr/16 -21 oc) and  
c. Break bulk cargo must be treated no more than 48 hours prior to shipment;  
d. Containerised cargo must be treated either prior to shipment, or within 24 hours on arriva l at the 
port of discharge.  
or 
2. Managed through an MPl -approved system.  
Airfreight  
3. All new and used vehicles and machinery imported via air do not require treatment as outlined in clauses  
4. 3(1) and (2), but will be risk assessed and may be treated or inspect ed or both.  
4.4 This clause applies to all vehicles and machinery sourced and shipped from Italy from the 1 st of 
September to the 30th of April of any year.  
Sea freight - All new and used vehicles and machinery imported via sea freight must be managed as  follows:  
a. Break -bulk cargo must be managed through an MPl -approved system.  
or b. Break -bulk cargo must be treated at the port of export to NZ.  
or 
c. Containerised cargo (including equipment, components and parts) must be treated at the port of export 
or on arrival in NZ.  
Treatment specifications are as follows, and treatment for all vehicles and machinery must be conducted within 
1 20 hours of departure from the port of export or treatment for containerised items may be conducted within 
24 hours of arriv al at the place of first arrival in NZ:  
a. Heat treatment at 600C for 10 minutes for items weighing less than 3,000 kg.  
or b. Heat treatment at 60 0C for 20 minutes for items weighing more than 3,000 kg.  
or c. Methyl bromide fumigation at 48 g/m3 for 24 ho urs at 10 -15 0 C. 
or d. Methyl bromide fumigation at 40 g/m3 for 24 hours at 15 -21 0 C). 
or 
e. Sulfuryl fluoride fumigation at 16g/m3 for 12 hours with a minimum dose reading of 8g/ rn3 at a 
temperature of 1 O O C or greater to achieve a CT of 144 g.h/ m3. 
All new and used vehicles and machinery from Italy imported via air freight do not require treatment as outlined as 
above, but such cargo will be risk assessed and may be treated or inspected or both where required.  
NOTE: The accompanying guidance documen t provides explanatory information to assist importers in 
meeting the requirements of this import health standard.  
 
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Terms & Definitions  
The following terms and definitions apply to this standard. Other terms used are as per the Biosecurity Act 1993.  
Biosecurity risk organism  
A live organism that is a (risk good' (as that term is defined in the Biosecurity Act 1993).  
Clean  
Free from biosecurity risk organisms, and organic material and other contaminating substance that, if present, it would 
by reason of its nature, origin, or other factors, be reasonable to suspect constitutes, harbours or contains a biosecurity 
risk organism.  
Equivalent system  
Any system of interventions approved by a CTO that is equivalent to a specific requirement(s) of this IHS.  
Machinery  
Mechanical devices that transmit or modify energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks, whether 
self-propelled, drawn, pushed or fixed in position, including:  
 forestry, agricultural and horticultural equipment, such as logging e quipment, vehicles with tracks, portable 
sawmills, balers, ploughs, tedders, wood chippers and mulchers, rollers, discers, fruit -pickers, wool scouring 
plants, pesticide sprayers and cranes, drilling rigs, as well as equipment/machinery used to house and/o r process 
plants and plant products or animal and animal products;  
 components of vehicles/machinery, such as engines, chassis, filters, suspension units and tyres, tracks, holding 
tanks and compartments;  
 construction, building, and production equipmen t, such as concrete mixers, elevators, escalators, generators and 
road construction equipment;  
 used research and diagnostic equipment, such as centrifuges, biohazard cabinets, air processing and extraction 
equipment, filters, stomachers and fume hoods, water samplers, waste disposals; and  
 any item of equipment that an inspector deems is machinery as defined for the purposes of this standard, such 
as ferris wheels, wind turbines and merry go -rounds.  
Vehicle  
A conveyance that is used to transport people, o bjects or substances, including:  
 motorised vehicles such as buses, cars, motor cycles, trucks, trains, utility vehicles, vans, motor homes, 
motorised bicycles, segways, forklifts, forestry and agricultural vehicles (tractors, harvesters, feller bunchers, 
and skidders), golf carts and mobility scooters;  
 non-motorised and/or self -propelled vehicles imported as cargo such as cable cars, trailers, caravans, vessels 
and aircraft, land yachts; and  
 damaged vehicles imported for repair or dismantling.  
But excludin g: 
 non-motorised bicycles imported as general cargo or personal effects; and  
 non-road vehicles not requiring registration from New Zealand transport authorities such as skateboards, 
nonmotorised scooters, and wheelchairs.  
 
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