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Originally Posted by saviofong
I know Australia have a very strict control on wooden products. The telescope is yet to build, and I don't mind to buy some wooden board from Australia to Hong Kong for that, as this telescope will mainly used in Australia in the future (see reason below), or other precautions I can take to bring in the telescope?
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It does not matter whether you source the wood from Australia or not, as customs controls are always fully in effect. What the inspectors will be looking for is whether the product is "raw" in nature and is free from "bore beetle" or similar insects. We were told that it does not matter where the material was sourced from, but from where was before is arrives.
Case in point: When I was living in Indonesia, we had cinnamon sticks from Australia. When we moved back to Australia, we had to have the sticks irradiated and quarantined. This service cost me $60 to have done and were returned to us in a fortnight.
If the wood product is professionally done (i.e. commercial-looking), then it generally passes through without any problems.
Case in point: I recent traveled to Fiji and purchased some weapons (for display). They were high quality products (not the cheap tourist type), which were inspected and released on the spot.
As long as the telescope looks of quality and the wood parts are stained, varished or painted, you should not have and problems.
I travel globally and have only had three items ever held for "treatment" (from South Africa, Kyrgystan and Venezuela). You being from Hong Kong, I doubt you would have any issues at all.
OIC!