Licensed brokerCustoms broker licence Lic. CB0000 — every entry lodged under it.
Licensed customs brokerage · O'Connor, WA
Customs clearance for WA importers — Fremantle and Perth Airport
FCL, LCL and air freight classified, lodged and cleared by a licensed broker. Send us your commercial invoice — we'll tell you the landed cost before the ship berths.
Your container doesn't care about paperwork. The wharf does.
- Licensed customs broker · Lic. CB0000
- Clearing daily since 2011
- Fremantle Port & Perth Airport
First container? We hand-hold the whole entry — classification, duty, GST, quarantine, wharf cartage — and give you one itemised bill in plain English.
Landed-Cost Ledger
Fremantle · 05:10 · Berth 4
STS crane · ship to truck
Goods value (AUD)
Duty rate
Typical general tariff rates — confirmed on classification.
Shipment volume
Cartage $95/m³, minimum 3 m³ billed.
- Goods value (customs value)What you pay your supplier — the base customs value.$40,000
- Example sea freightExample freight for this ledger — your quote uses your actual freight.$3,200
- Import duty @ 5%Typical general tariff rates — confirmed on classification.$2,000
- GST10% of goods value + duty + freight — statutory.$4,520
- Brokerage & clearanceOur fee — classification, entry lodgement, one contact.$340
- Wharf-to-door cartage, metroSide-loader delivery anywhere in metro Perth.$680
- Government import processing & quarantineSet by ABF and DAFF — shown from the current schedule on your entry.at cost — no mark-up
Payable on this entry
$7,540+ government charges at cost
The total is duty + GST + our fees. Goods and freight sit above the line because you already pay them to your supplier and forwarder — they're shown here because GST is calculated on them.
Since 2011Fifteen years of WA entries — machinery, retail stock, first containers.
Direct EDILodging straight into the cargo systems line — no re-keying, no queue.
Both gatewaysClearing Fremantle Port and Perth Airport daily, metro delivery arranged.
What we clear
Services & honest floors
Sea · Fremantle
FCL container clearance
from $1,020 brokerage + metro cartage
A full 20 ft or 40 ft box cleared and side-loaded to your yard. $340 brokerage per entry plus $680 metro cartage — our fees, before duty, GST and government charges.
Sea · groupage
LCL groupage clearance
from $575 brokerage + minimum cartage
Shared-container cargo unpacked at the depot and delivered. $290 brokerage plus cartage at $95/m³ — minimum 3 m³ billed, so the floor is $285 cartage.
Air · Perth Airport
Air freight clearance
from $440 brokerage & delivery — our fees
$260 brokerage per entry plus $180 terminal fees and metro delivery. That $440 is our fee floor, never the ledger total — duty, GST and government charges sit on top.
Advice
Tariff classification & duty-concession advice
$160 per tariff line, credited
Written classification with duty rate, FTA eligibility and any concession orders that apply — credited against the entry when we clear it.
Biosecurity
Quarantine & DAFF inspection coordination
at cost set by DAFF — no mark-up
Packing declarations, inspection bookings, treatment if it's ordered. Government charges are passed through at cost from the current schedule — we don't price what we don't set.
Demo reviews — written as sample copy
Importers we'd make look easy
"Our first container out of Ningbo and I didn't understand a single form. Fairlead walked me through the packing declaration, told me the landed cost before the vessel berthed, and the box was in our Bibra Lake unit two days after discharge."
"We'd been paying 5% duty on the same machine parts for three years. Their tariff review found a concession order that took it to zero — the classification fee paid for itself on the first entry."
"Docs to them at 1pm on a Friday, entry cleared before close of business. Saved us a weekend of storage charges and a Monday of apologising to customers."
Port to metro
Two gateways, one delivery run
Sea cargo discharges at Fremantle Port; air freight lands at Perth Airport. Either way, we clear the entry, pay the terminal, and put your freight on a truck to anywhere in metro Perth — usually the same day it's released.
Our office is in O'Connor, ten minutes from the wharf gate. If a container gets held for inspection, we're close enough to stand next to it.
- FCL side-loader — $680 metro, no crane hire, box grounded at your yard
- LCL depot pickup — $95/m³, minimum 3 m³ billed, delivered on a tailgate truck
- Air terminal & delivery — $180 flat, cleared and driven the day it lands
Straight answers
What importers ask us
What documents do you need from me?
Three things start every entry: the commercial invoice, the packing list, and the bill of lading (or air waybill). If there's timber packaging we'll also want the packing declaration, and for FTA duty rates a certificate of origin. Email them over — we'll tell you within the hour if anything's missing.
How long does clearance take?
A clean entry with full documents is usually lodged the same day we receive them, and sea cargo is typically cleared before the vessel finishes discharge when docs come early. Air freight moves faster — often cleared and delivered the day it lands. Inspections and missing documents are what add days, which is why we chase both before the freight arrives.
What duty will I pay?
Honestly: classification decides it, not us. Most general cargo lands between 0% and 5%, and free-trade agreements take a lot of it to zero with the right origin paperwork. GST of 10% applies to almost everything, calculated on goods + duty + freight. We confirm the exact rate when we classify your invoice — that's the $160 tariff-advice line, credited when we clear the entry.
Do I need a customs broker by law?
No. You're legally allowed to lodge your own import declaration with the Australian Border Force. A broker earns their fee on classification (getting the duty rate right, and finding the concessions that make it lower), on quarantine coordination, and on not having your container sit on the wharf accruing storage while you learn the forms. For a one-off low-value parcel, self-clearing can be fine — we'll tell you if that's your situation.
What does quarantine look for?
DAFF's concern is biosecurity risk: timber packaging and pallets (they must be treated and stamped), soil on machinery, food and plant material, and anything giving insects a ride. Most holds we see are untreated pallets and missing packing declarations — both preventable before the ship sails, which is exactly when we ask about them.
Get a clearance quote
Send us your commercial invoice
Tell us what's coming and how it's moving. We'd come back with a fixed brokerage quote and a landed-cost estimate — duty, GST, cartage, the lot — usually within one business hour.
Prefer the phone? (08) 9000 0295, 6:30am–5pm weekdays. Entries are lodged daily.
- Have your invoice handy — supplier, goods description, value, currency
- Know your freight mode — full container, shared container, or air
- Timber packaging? — mention it; the packing declaration saves days
Received — thanks
Sarah, we've got your enquiry. On the live site our entries desk would call you back within one business hour (6:30am–5pm weekdays) to confirm documents and freight details, then send a fixed quote.
This is a demonstration build — no enquiry has been sent, and no one will call. But this is exactly how easy it should be.