Exporters generate a lot of revenue for the country but are often held back by all the bureaucratic red tape that makes it impossible to get work done as quickly or as efficiently as they would like to. The government has made it mandatory to have several certificates ready and approved before a shipment can get sent from the country. Examples of this are the pre-receival advice and the certificate of origin. Each of these has an important role to play in the export process in Australia. Inadvertently missing out on them could lead to great delays leading to loss of revenue for the exporting company. Why are these so important? The pre-receival advice was previously available only in the paper format. At that time, it used to be called the Export Receival Advice. After being converted to the electronic format, it is now known as the pre-receival advice. This is important because it gives the shipping terminal where a shipment is meant to arrive all the necessary informat