20Food grown, produced or made in Australia that is exported and re-imported

20 Food grown, produced or made in Australia that is exported and re-imported

If food to which section 18 or 19 applies was:

grown, produced or made in Australia; and
exported from Australia and then re-imported to Australia:

the mark required to be included in the labelling must also include a description, in brackets, of the processing that occurred outside Australia.

Note: Section 18 or 19 will apply only if the food was grown, produced or made in Australia, so that it cannot have undergone a substantial transformation when abroad, nor can it have been combined with non-Australian ingredients outside Australia. However, it may have undergone some processing (for example, cleaning, shelling, packaging, re-packaging) and it may have been combined with other Australian ingredients.

Note: For example, the label for Australian macadamias sent to Fiji for shelling, sorting and packing before being returned to Australia would include a statement ‘(shelled, sorted and packed in Fiji)’.