Agricultural and marine products

Business processes
Procedure
  • 1

    Registration of an import retail business which includes food import >>Getting educational qualifications after taking online education at Korea Health Supplements Association(http://www.khsa.or.kr) and applying for an import retail business registration.

  • 2

    Review products’ size, standards and its customs permit >> Review for an suitable type and an standard size for Korean Food Standards Codex by checking component proportions, manufacturing process, export country quarantine certificate(or sterilization certificate) and the export label.

  • 3

    Preliminary inspection about standards and specifications of food products >> We make a test for food products in advance whether those products are appropriate for internal standards and specifications.

    * Preliminary inspection: It can prevent the case from failing to pass the test in advance if we make the same precision test for products before importing.
  • 4

    Making suitable labels for products>> Making Korean labels for each type according to the food labeling regulations from the Food Sanitation Act.

  • 5

    Importing into the country and warehousing of goods at bonded warehouse.

    * We provide ONE STOP SERVICE which includes international transportation, operating warehouse, clearance, inland transportation.
  • 6

    KFDS declaration and making the process of applying for quarantine by Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency and National Fishery Products Quality Management Service >> Preliminary inspection, review documents + plant quarantine/Animal and plant quarantine/fishery quarantine

    * Precision test: It is the test for products that are imported for the first time at Korea and products will be taken a test for its standards and specifications under the functional food for health act.
    (It is the same preliminary precision test that No.3 clause refers)
    * examination documents: Ascertain the appropriateness of its possibility to pass the test with the same products that were imported in the nation before.
  • 7

    Customs declaration >> Imported products declaration and clearance at Korea Customs

  • 8

    Inland transportation >> You can receive your products where you want.

Agricultural livestock and marine products related data

Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
http://www.mfds.go.kr

Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency
http://www.mfds.go.kr

National Fishery Products Quality Management Service
http://www.nfqs.go.kr
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