Information regarding importing your pets into Thailand

Requirements for Pre-importation of dogs and cats into Thailand
1	An importer or any person wishing to import live animals into the Kingdom of Thailand should receive an Import Permit from the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) prior to an importation.
2	The importer should contact a veterinary official at the International Animal Quarantine Station (AQS) at the port of entry, and request for information on a protocol and an animal health requirement of importation of live animals into Thailand.
3	The importer should personally submit an application request (Form No 1/1) to import live animals into the country to an AQS veterinary offical, at least 15 days prior to an importation. The application should be attached with a copy of the importer's identification card. He could appoint a representative to submit the application, in written paper, and attach copies of identification cards of himself and his representative.
4	The DLD authority will necessarily examine animal disease status of the country of origin before an issuance of Import Permit which will include an appropriate animal health requirement. The animal health requirements for importation of live animals into Thailand shall be periodically revised to cope with the present situation and/or the current animal disease status.
5	The importer should send the Import Permit to a duly veterinary authority of the country of origin in order to prepare, inspect, test, and certify those imported animals in compliance with the animal health requirement set by DLD.
6	The importer should confirm an exact date of arrival of the imported animals to an AQS veterinary official at the port of entry to prepare all facilities concerned, at least 3 days in advance.

Process at the time of Import
7	The AQS veterinary official is authorized to issue a preliminary import license (Form No 6) shortly at the time of importation for customs formalities. An official health certificate, in English, issued by a duly veterinary authority of the country of origin, for those imported animals should also be presented to an AQS veterinary official to check before general inspection of the imported animals on arrival.
8	In case that imported animals for breeding purpose, pedigree certificate or other evidence should be presented to a veterinary official of the AQS to check for import fee exemption.
9	The importer should attach a copy of an Invoice which indicates the price of imported animals or Price List, Packing List, Air Waybill / Bill of Lading and etc. to the application.
10	The importer must pay an import fee as prescribed by the Ministerial Regulation, which was issued in accordance with the Animal Epidemics Act B.E. 2499 (1956).
11	The animals are moved to animal quarantine facilities after general examination on arrival. During quarantine period, samples from all imported animals shall be collected for countercheck or tested for certain diseases as prescribed.
12	In case that the imported animals are sick or dead while travelling or quarantine, all concerned should be informed as immediately as possible. The AQS veterinary official shall take an emergency measure to investigate and/or to control should there be any disease outbreak.
13	The ultimate import license (Form No 7 ) will be issued when all imported animals have passed the prescribed tests, to release the animals to their final destination, at the completion of post-import quarantine in Thailand.


Requirements for Importation of dogs and cats into Thailand
1	The country must be free from Rabies for at least 3 years.
2	The animals must be vaccinated with approved Rabies vaccines for at least 15 days prior to the departure.
3	The animals must be vaccinated against Leptospirosis at least 21 days preceding departure.
4	The animals must be healthy and free from any sign of infectious or contagious disease at the time of export.
5	The animals must had been resident in the country not less than 6 months preceding the date of export.
6	The animals must have identity certificates signed in the country of origin by a registered veterinary surgeon and further endorsed by a veterinary authority describing the age, breed, sex, color and markings or other points of identification of the dogs or cats.
7	The health certificate certify all as stated 1 - 6 issued by the authorized veterinary officer of the country of origin must accompany the animals on arrival.
8	The animals may only transit at an approved intermediate port, and, if the animals are so landed in transit, they must be conveyed in crates and not allowed to leave the precincts of any airport at which the aircraft landed except to an approved transit quarantine area.

Additional Updated Information

Additional, regularly, updated information regarding importing your pets into Thailand

The following will be the regulation for the ban or importation of swine and ruminants as well as the case of cats and dogs:

- According to the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in UK, the Department of Livestock Development announced:

(1) It is temporarily prohibiting the importation of swine and ruminants and other products of swine and ruminants including wildlife animals semen embryo, milk and milk products, blood and meat meals, wool, hair, bristles, raw hides and skins and trophies, straw and forage from UK.

(2) Other imported animals and animal products, which are not mentioned in No. (1), require a health certificate signed by a full time veterinary official of the Government of exporting country withhis official stamp, certifying the conditions that the animals or animal products are free from FMD.

(3) In case of importation of cats and dogs into Thailand, the animals have been resident in the country of origin since birth or at least 6 months prior to export accompanied by a health certificate showing the animals are vaccinated against Rabies at least 21 days prior to the departure.

Additional Information can be found at the following locations:
Department of Livestock Development
Phya Thai Road,
Bangkok 10400
Thailand
http://www.dld.go.th/

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