We source, inspect, document and ship Australian agricultural, food and resource commodities into the ASEAN markets — and bring the region's rubber, coffee, aquaculture and manufactured goods back the other way.
Trading history in the Australia–Southeast Asia lane.
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Brunei.
Eight out of Australia, three back in — listed line by line.
AANZFTA, RCEP, IA-CEPA, MAFTA, TAFTA and SAFTA.
Each line is quoted against a written specification, a pack format and a named Incoterm. If the grade you need is not one we hold, we will say so rather than substitute.
Milling and feed wheat, barley, sorghum, chickpeas, faba beans, lentils
Chilled and frozen primals, 40RF reefer, vacuum-pack cartons
Skim and whole milk powder, butter, cheese, UHT
Live rock lobster by air, frozen prawns and finfish by reefer
Citrus, table grapes, almonds, macadamias
Bottled in 12×750 ml cartons; bulk in 24,000 L flexitank
Cotton lint in ~227 kg bales; greasy wool core-tested
Copper cathode, aluminium, iron ore, mineral sands
Australia buys far more from ASEAN than it sells there. The same relationships, the same forwarders and the same customs brokers that put an Australian container on the water bring one back — which is why our import book sits alongside the export book rather than underneath it.
On the inbound side we work to Australian import conditions from the first enquiry: BICON before the order, not after it, and an import permit granted before the goods sail.
Transit times below are indicative port-to-port ocean legs. They exclude origin consolidation, terminal cut-offs, transhipment dwell and destination clearance — we confirm every one against the carrier's live schedule before it goes on a proforma.
Relay services into secondary ports add three to seven days at the transhipment hub, usually Singapore or Port Klang. August to October and the weeks before Lunar New Year run longer.
The artefact at each stage is named, because in cross-border trade the paperwork is the product. A missing non-manipulation certificate at transhipment costs a buyer the whole tariff preference.
We confirm the goods are admissible at all — MICoR for the destination, BICON for anything inbound to Australia — then run AANZFTA, RCEP and the relevant bilateral to find the lowest lawful landed duty.
RFQ · specification sheetA proforma invoice your bank can open a credit against: HS code, Incoterm and named place, packing, marks, ports, partial-shipment and transhipment terms, validity. Beyond a trial order, a sales contract with tolerance, inspection and arbitration clauses.
Proforma invoice · sales contractExport permit and health or phytosanitary certificate through EXDOC, halal certificate where the market requires one, Certificate of Origin through ACCI or Ai Group, then the carrier booking and the empty release.
Export permit · COO · bookingPacked, sealed with a numbered bolt seal, weighed and declared before the terminal cut-off. No VGM, no load — it is one of the most common documentary reasons a container rolls to the next vessel. Pre-shipment inspection at your option.
Packing list · VGM · seal numberBill of lading, commercial invoice matching the credit word for word, packing list, COO, insurance certificate, inspection certificates — presented inside the credit period. Shipping advice to you within two days of sailing.
B/L · invoice · arrival noticeThe same shipment can often claim preference under two or three agreements with different rules of origin and different forms. We run all of them and quote the landed cost, so the number you compare is the number you pay.
A distributor who wants four product families does not want four suppliers and four credits. We consolidate mixed-SKU containers under one invoice, one packing list and one certificate of origin.
If the grade you have specified will not meet your target price, or the certification you need is not one the origin can hold, we say so in the first reply instead of quoting a substitution you find out about at discharge.
Scheme certificates are held by the registered establishment producing each line and are issued per consignment. We name the holder and the certificate number on request, before you order.
698324248 PTY LTD is registered in Australia under ACN 698 324 248 and has worked the Australia–Southeast Asia corridor for more than a decade. We are a trading house, not a broker: we take a position, we hold the contract, and we are the counterparty your credit is opened against.
That also means we are the party who wears a discrepancy. It is why the document set gets the attention on this site that most trading companies give to a product gallery.
Send the product, the quantity, the destination port and the shipment month. You get an indicative offer — or an honest no — in the first reply.