What documentation your shipment needs
Pick product and destination: the list adjusts itself and points you, with its date, to the regulation that applies to that specific shipment.
This list is a guide: every shipment is confirmed with the importer and the customs broker before departure.
Current regulation applicable to your order
Five rules and one case-by-case check, each with the date it bites. An application date is the difference between shipping and not shipping.
- Fresh ginger and turmeric to the EUEnforcement from 15/10/2026
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/826
Requires an additional declaration on the phytosanitary certificate. For Peru the realistic route is a registered, supervised production site, with PCR sampling before export and demonstrable traceability.
- Peruvian transitional protocolTransitional measures expired on 31/08/2026
RD D000026-2026-MIDAGRI-SENASA-DSV (Peru)
It was the transitional window for shipping fresh cargo. Before committing a season we check the current regime with SENASA and that the site is approved, we do not assume it.
- All organic goods to the EUFull compliance since 01/01/2025
Regulation (EU) 2018/848 and Delegated Reg. (EU) 2021/2306
e-COI in TRACES NT and a Transfer Certificate issued batch by batch. The control body must be recognised for Peru.
- All organic goods to the USRequired since 19/03/2024
USDA NOP, Strengthening Organic Enforcement rule
NOPIC issued in USDA INTEGRITY before shipment. Without it, organic cargo does not enter as organic.
- Contaminants, all EU destinationsIn force
Regulation (EU) 2023/915
Lead, cadmium, aflatoxins and ochratoxin are measured by category. The same value that passes as a dried product can fail as fresh: the category is fixed before the analysis is ordered.
- Novel food in the EUCase-by-case check
Novel food framework
Sacha inchi oil has been authorised since 2013. The roasted seed has an open dossier. Maca extracts face friction, while traditional powder and gelatinised maca do not.
- All food to the USIn force
FDA · Bioterrorism Act and FSMA
FDA facility registration and Prior Notice before each shipment arrives.
- Cocoa and chocolate to the EUApplies from 30/12/2026
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 (EUDR)
Due diligence statement with geolocation of origin plots, filed by the importer with data from the exporter.