AUCKLAND
Air Cargo Inspection Facility, 21 Tom Pearce Drive, Manukau 2150
PO Box 73 003, Auckland Airport, New Zealand
Phone: 09 927 9000 All general enquiries phone: 0800 428 786
Email: [email address], Website: www.customs.govt.nz
14 November 2016
Ref: PS OIA 16-271
Graham Carter
Via FYI website
By Email: [FYI request #4798 email]
Dear Mr Carter,
Request for Official Information
Thank you for your email to the New Zealand Customs Service (Customs) dated 19 October 2016, in which
you requested the following information:
1. How much of our [seafood] sold and consumed in NZ is imported?
2. How much imported seafood is checked and tested?
3. What precautions are taken to ensure that antibiotics, antifungals and antiparasitics are not in
imported seafood?
4. Does Customs recognize the Country of Origin Labelling CoOL requirements?
5. What oversight or monitoring is done or carried out to ensure the correct regulations are adhered
too?
6. What monitoring is done to ensure that restaurants, processed fish – fish markets indicate where
their fish comes from and whether they were farmed or wild caught?
Your request has been treated as a request for information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act).
I understand you requested the same information from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and they
provided most of the information you were seeking, but that they advised you to contact Customs and
Statistics New Zealand (Statistics NZ) for information in relation to question 1.
Information is publicly available on Statistics NZ Infoshare page available at:
http://www.stats.govt.nz/infoshare/TradeVariables.aspx?DataType=TIM which will respond to question
1, with information on Seafood to be found in Chapters 3 and 16. I am, therefore, refusing your request
under section 18(d) of the Act.
If this information is not fit for purpose, then please contact Customs a
t [email address] with a
refined request. We will need to know the timeframe you are seeking the information for and the tariff
codes for the types of seafood you are interested in. Our information can also be broken down by
country of origin and either monthly or yearly aggregates.
You have the right, by way of complaint to the Office of the Ombudsman under section 28(3) of the Act,
to seek an investigation and review of the decisions conveyed in this letter. However, please contact
Customs at the email address provided above in the first instance if you have any questions in relation to
the information provided.
Yours sincerely,
Anne Marie Taggart
Group Manager, Border Operations
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