[Draft for public consultation period, closing on 13 September 2025: https://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity/risk-analysis/plant/guava-from-Taiwan]

The Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) has prepared this draft report to assess the proposal by Taiwan for market access to Australia for guava fruit for human consumption.

 Australia does not currently permit the importation of guava fruit from any country, for human consumption. 

This draft report determines that the importation of commercially produced guava fruit to Australia from all commercial production areas of Taiwan can be permitted, subject to a range of biosecurity requirements. This draft report contains details of plant pests that are of biosecurity concern to Australia and are potentially associated with the importation of guava fruit from Taiwan. The term ‘pests’ includes both arthropod pests and pathogens. This report also contains risk assessments for the identified quarantine pests, and, where required, proposed risk management measures to reduce the biosecurity risk to an acceptable level, that is, to achieve the appropriate level of protection (ALOP) for Australia. 

Seven quarantine pests have been identified in this risk analysis as requiring risk management measures to reduce the biosecurity risk to an acceptable level. These pests are:

- fruit flies: Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis), fruit fly (Bactrocera occipitalis), melon fly (Zeugodacus cucurbitae) and pumpkin fruit fly (Zeugodacus tau)

-mealybugs: coffee mealybug (Planococcus lilacinus), Pacific mealybug (Planococcus minor) and Jack Beardsley mealybug (Pseudococcus jackbeardsleyi)

The identified pests are the same, or of the same pest groups, as those associated with other horticultural commodities that have been analysed previously by the department.