Oceania · Supplied via importers

Australia & New Zealand

A benchtop market with its main material banned.

Supplied through established benchtop importers and stone distributors.

Banned

Engineered stone, since 2024

30–45 days

Typical lead time

CIF · CFR

Incoterms offered

The market

What buying from here looks like.

Australia banned engineered stone outright. Manufacture, supply and installation ended in July 2024, imports in January 2025. The benchtops that material used to fill have to come from somewhere, and buyers here accept a higher price for natural stone because the alternative no longer legally exists.

This is the clearest regulatory opening in any market we serve, and it is not a marketing angle. A material is being removed from a market by law. We supply benchtop slabs and fabrication-ready cut-to-size in the thicknesses Australian fabricators actually work in. Freight distance is real and we price it openly rather than burying it; we would rather you test us with one container than commit to a programme on a spreadsheet.

Destination ports: Sydney (Port Botany) · Melbourne · Brisbane · Auckland
Incoterms: CIF · CFR
Lead time: 30–45 days
Payment: L/C at sight · TT against documents for established accounts
Currency: AUD · USD

Catalogue for Australia & New Zealand

What actually earns here.

Ordered by margin, not by volume. The categories at the top are where the value sits in this market. The rest is listed because it keeps lines loaded, not because we recommend leading with it.

Highest margin

Benchtop slabs

Engineered stone has been removed from this market by law. Benchtops still have to be made of something.

Specification: Gangsaw slabs · 20 and 30 mm · polished, honed, leathered

Natural stone is unaffected by the engineered stone ban.

Core business

Fabrication-ready cut-to-size

Shortens shop time for fabricators who lost their usual material and are rebuilding a workflow around natural stone.

Specification: To template or DXF · cut-outs and edge profiles

Rules that apply here

Duty, compliance and paperwork
for Australia & New Zealand.

This applies to Australia & New Zealand and nowhere else on this site. Regulation in this trade is regional, and pretending otherwise wastes your time.

Duty & classification

Duty on worked stone entering Australia is low; your importer confirms the rate. Biosecurity inspection is the practical gate, not duty.

Compliance

Natural granite contains no resin-bound high-silica composite. Engineered stone has been prohibited in Australia since 2024. Natural stone is not affected by that ban.

Documentation

Commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading, certificate of origin, fumigation certificate. Australian biosecurity requires ISPM-15 timber and a clean container.

The stone