What are you trying to import? I've periodically gone to the Burleigh Park Orchids website and drooled at the flasks they have for sale...tragically, limited primarily to Australians (unless you're very rich, or very good at getting things across borders secretly). Are you sure they don't have what you want?

PS - you may want to remove your e-mail address from your info up above...it's the perfect target for spam (and not the yummy food kind either..yes, I eat spam. I'm a student..I'm poor...I like meat :))

OK ... bit of a story here. I recently bought 100 flasks from a guy up north who had bought them in from Taiwan. He was quite young and had had enough so to help him out, I took them. I've since negotiated a much better price from various nurseries in Taiwan. Most of them are gone now via ebay and I can see there's a nice income to be made from becoming the importer and still passing the savings on to other growers/small nurseries who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford the flasks that are available commercially.

However, I am yet to find a Customs Agent to handle the paperwork or how to go about the importing process at this end. Maybe the costs of the agent, quarantine inspection, etc. may make the exercise too expensive. I don't know until I find out.

Cheers,

Well, not sure about Australia, but most contries there is no problem importing or exporting flasks as long as the particular plant is not on an endangered CITES list. Most problems come from live plants that may contain pests or disease even when sprayed. Because of the process required to do flasking, the flasks are considered completely sterile. Just contact your local Dept of Agriculture to see what is involved