Food contact
Australia and New Zealand work to their own food-standards framework rather than the European one; Japan, Korea and most ASEAN markets publish national food-contact rules with their own test conditions and migration limits.
Supplying Asia Pacific
Short transit, local standards, and the markets that most resemble our own.
Asia Pacific and Oceania combine the shortest sea lanes in the world with some of the most specific national standards — Australian and New Zealand requirements are written from a different food-safety framework to the European one, and most South-East Asian markets publish their own food-contact rules rather than adopting a bloc's. The upside is time: several of these destinations are days away rather than weeks.
Market Requirements
What Asia Pacific Asks Of The Product
These are the market's rules rather than our claims. The two that decide your document set are the material and the destination; tell us both and we confirm which of these apply before anything is commissioned.
Labelling
National language panels are common — Japanese, Korean or a local ASEAN language — with country-of-origin and importer details specified separately by each market.
Restricted substances
National lists rather than a single bloc list; several markets are closer to the European position than to the American one.
Transit
The shortest lanes of any region this site serves. To Australia and New Zealand it is roughly 2–3 weeks; to Japan and Korea 3–7 days.
Retail programmes
Australian and Japanese retail groups specify packaging and display requirements in detail, and e-commerce-only programmes often need no retail display at all.
Starting Points
Ranges That Fit This Market
Shipping
How It Gets There
Planning facts for this destination. The production window is the same everywhere on this site; what changes is the water and the clearance.
| Ports | Ningbo or Shanghai, FOB; CIF to Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Yokohama or Busan on request. |
|---|---|
| Transit | Roughly 3–7 days to Japan and Korea, 1–2 weeks to South-East Asia, 2–3 weeks to Australia and New Zealand, plus the production window. |
| Cartons | The standard family pack-outs, with a retailer-specific display unit added where a programme lists into physical stores. |
| Advantage | The short lane means a reorder is a realistic response to a season rather than a next-year decision, which is worth building into the first order's tooling and colour choices. |
Questions From This Market
What Buyers Here Ask Us
The questions below are the ones that come up most from Asia Pacific rather than the general ones, which live on the FAQ.
Can you supply to Australian food-contact rules?
Yes, but they are not European rules and the test is not interchangeable. Tell us the destination at the enquiry stage and the applicable set is confirmed before anything is commissioned.
How fast can a reorder arrive?
On a Japanese or Korean lane the sea leg is days rather than weeks, so the binding constraint becomes production and the artwork round, not shipping. Keeping colour and decoration stable between runs is what makes that speed real.
Do you handle Japanese labelling requirements?
The importer normally owns the approved label content, and we print the panel to your artwork. Multi-language and small-panel layouts are confirmed against the carton before printing.
Is the MOQ different for these markets?
No. 500 pieces per colour on existing tooling, the same everywhere. What differs is the transit, and therefore how a smaller first order and a reorder can be sequenced.
Also Relevant
Other Regions
Enquiry
Send The Destination And The Product
That is enough for us to name the standards, the label and the packing rule that apply, and to price the configuration against them.