You are planning to import Flexible LED which is under HS8541. There is no import duty require. The sales tax is 10% (if the price more than RM500). The sales tax is a consumption tax charged at the point  of import for certain goods. For your information, Flexible LED (and any other LED lamp are) is not a control item yet in Malaysia. For time being, it does not need any approval. If you still want to get your product approved, you can do it on voluntary basis. However, it is recommended for your product to be approved in order to get consumer's trust.

hi bro, thank you so much for the information. It is very helpful.

My handphone casing (5 nos worth RM1.3k) held in customs!!
How ah?? Called me saying maybe 20% of cost + insurance + flight!!

Pls pls pls pls help me what to do??
I will have to go down this saturday...

Hi,

http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Eneloop-Discha.../dp/B0054QNH28/

I'm planning to buy this item from Amazon (one unit only). Does it subject to import duties ?
I'm from Kuching Sarawak. Please help. Thank you.

Prohibited commodities

Standard DHL prohibitions plus: All items offensive to Muslim culture, particularly publications,
films and videotapes, are prohibited. Malaysia has no trade or diplomatic relations with Israel.
Therefore all items to and from Israel or territories administered by her are prohibited. No DOX
restrictions apply but for non document, consignees must get an approval permit from the
Malaysian International Trade & Industry (which may take 1 week).

Antiques
Furs
Gambling devices
Ivory
Jewellery
Postal envelopes
Precious metals & stones

Document Express
General correspondence (business or private), plus: Advertising brochures/pamphlets
Airline tickets, issued/validated
Annual reports
Artwork inc.drawings/proofs/layouts
Blueprints [1]
Booklets, brochures (non-adv.) [1]
Books: hard book/paper book noncommercial use [1]
Business cards
Cash letters (NI)
Catalogues [1]
Charts/graphs
Cheques, blank (NI)
Cheques, cancelled (NI)
Cheques, cashier (NI)
Computer printouts
Credit card blanks (NI)
Credit cards (NI)
Deeds
Diplomatic mail
Diskettes
Documents, general business
Drawings, technical/architect/eng.
Invoices, not blank
Magazines, periodicals, journals [1]
Manuals, technical
Manuscripts
Maps
Microfiche & microfilm [1]
Money orders (NI)
Music, printed or manuscript
Pamphlets [1]
Paper patterns for wearing apparel
Personal mail
Photographs
Photos as part of business reports
Plans/drawings-architectural/industrial/engineering
Price lists
Price tickets for garments
Publication not for public resale
Ship manifest-computer generated
Shipping schedules
Transparencies
Visa applications

1. Ship as DOX if no commercial transaction is involved ie. product is not intended for resale in

Worldwide Package Express
Note following WPX restrictions:

Airline tickets, blank stock (NI) [1]
Alcoholic beverages [2]
Blank forms [1]
Bunker oil sample (for analysis) [3]
Calendars [4]
Ceramic products [5]
Chemicals, non-hazardous [6]
Circuits & circuit boards [7]
Clocks/watches [8]
Coal & firewood [9]
Coffee [10]
Coffee samples [10]
Cologne and perfume [11]
Communications equipment [12]
Compact disc [13]
Computer components & parts [14]
Computer software [15]
Cosmetics [11]
Cotton [10]
Cotton seed [10]
Diaries [1]
Drugs: non-prescription [16]
Electronic equipment [17]
Electronic games [17]
Eye glasses and contacts [18]
Fabrics & fabric samples [19]
Films: 8mm, 16mm & 35mm [20]
Films: entertainment [20]
Films: promotional, training [20]
Fire extinguishers [21]
Foodstuffs [10] Fotolithos [9]
Glass products [1]
Grain samples [10]
Industrial equipment [22]
Invoices, blank [1]
Isopropanol [3]
Jewellery, costume [17]
Labels [1]
Laser disc [20]
Leather goods [23]
Liquids, non-hazardous [15]
Marble products [24]
Measuring apparatus [17]
Medical samples [11]
Medical/dental supplies & equipment [15]
Military equipment [25]
Negatives, including x-rays, films [9]
Newspapers [26]
Oil products [6]
Parts, machine & electronic [27]
Perishables [10]
Personal effects [28]
Phones/modems [12]
Plant products [29]
Plants [29]
Plastic made products [4]
Playing cards [9]
Publications for public resale [30]
Radar equip.-transmitters/receivers [12]
Radio equipment [12]
Radios or parts thereof [12]
Rubber made products [9]
Samples, textile [19]
Seeds [10]
Ship spares [31]
Shoes [4]
Slides [9]
Soil samples [10]
Sports equipment [32]
Stationery [1]
Stone/mineral samples for analysis [10]
Subs. cont'g sodium/calc. cyclamate [6]
Swatches [19]
Tapes: audio cassettes [33]
Tapes: computer [15]
Tapes: video cassettes [34]
Tea [24]
Telecommunications equipment [12]
Televisions, television equipment [35]
Textile articles [19]
Tobacco [36]
Toys [37]
Typewriter ribbons [21]
Wallpaper [21]
Works of art [38]
Yarn [39]

1. 20% import tax.
2. USD 25.00-30.00 per deca litre (DAL) import duty and 15% sales tax. Approval for import must be obtained from Ministry of Health. Ministry operates strict Mon-Fri business hours only. Additional 48hours.
3. Import tax 5% and sales tax 10%. Flashpoint should be under 60.5 centigrade. If strictly for analysis only, no duties chargeable.
4. Import tax 15% and sales tax 10%. Shoes made out of leather is tax free.
5. Import tax 15-35% and sales tax 10%. Duties chargeable depending on utility of item.
6. 5%-10% import tax and 10% sales tax. Approval for import must be obtained from
2. Government Chemistry Dept. Dept operates strict Mon-Fri business hours only. Additional 48hrs.
7. 10%-30% import tax and 10% sales tax. Electrical circuit boards, integrated circuits and integrated circuit boards dutiable at 30% import tax and 10% sales tax. ICs 10% sales tax only. For use in PCs, no duties chargeable.
8. Please contact Customer Service
9. 5% import tax and 10% sales tax.
10. Approval for import must be obtained from Government Agricultural Department and/or Health Ministry. Ministry operates strict Mon-Fri business hours. Additional 48hrs.
11. 0-10% import tax. Approval must be obtained from Government Pharmacy Department and/or Ministry of Health. Ministry operates strict Mon- Fri business hours only. Additional 48hours.
12. 20%-30% import tax and 10% sales tax. Consignee must have approved permit from SIRIM (Standard Industry Research Institute of Malaysia). Failure to produce permit will result in inordinate delay.
13. Except CD ROMs which are for computer use, video CDs and other CDs are charged 10% sales tax.
14. Non-dutiable. Computer cables are dutiable at 30% import tax and 10% sales tax. Modems require an approved permit from Telecom Malaysia.
15. Non-dutiable.
16. 0-10% import tax. Approval must be obtained from Government Pharmacy Department and/or Ministry of Health. Ministry operates strict Mon-Fri business hours only. Additional 48hours.
17. Sales tax 10% only.
18. Import tax at 5% and sales tax 10%. Only contact lenses are dutiable.
19. Import tax 20% and sales tax 10%. No duties chargeable if quantities are small, i.e. strictly samples. Must identify fabric type, e.g. knitted, woven, crochet, etc.
20. Import tax 30-35% & sales tax 10%. Approval must be obtained from National Film Auth. (FINAS) subject to screening by the Board of Censors. Consignee may obtain exemption if approval is obtained fm the Min. of Info. Clearance from censor board additional. 4-8weeks
21. 25% import tax and 10% sales tax.
22. Duties chargeable depending on utility of equipment/parts.
23. All leather goods incur duties of up to 25% import tax and 10% sales tax. Handbags and other leather bags are import tax free with 10% sales tax.
24. 25% import tax.
25. Approval for import must be obtained from the Ministry of Defense and/or the Royal Malaysian Police. Clearance duration dependent on consignee's obtaining of approval. Ministry operates strictly Mon-Fri business hours only.
26. If personal shpt send as DOX, shpt for commercial purposes must be sent as WPX and subject to screening by Ministry of Home Affairs - Publication Division at the airport; delay: 24 hrs.
27. Import tax 5-15% and 10% sales tax. Duties chargeable depending on utility of parts.
28. Detailed Commercial Invoice and copy of consignee passport required.
29. Approval for import must be obtained from Government Agricultural Department and/or Ministry of Health. Ministry operates strictly Mon-Fri business hours only. Quarantine imposed. Additional 14 days.
30. Commercial shpt is subject to screening by Ministry of Home Affairs - Publication Division at the airport; delay: 24 hrs.
31. 1. If foreign registered vehicles, no duties chargeable. If locally registered vehicles, import duties are 15-50% and 10% sales tax. Delays can be expected if ship is not in port. 2. Ship spares for ship in transit: must carry harmonized tariff code 9800.00.700 which is tax free. Applies only to goods intended for incorporation in ships, boats or other vessels for the purpose of their construction, repair maintenance or for fitting to or equipping such vessels. The spares are imported are to be solely used by such vessels of an international nature departing to a destination outside the country.
32. Import tax 10%. Duties varied on utility and composition.
33. Import tax 30% and 10% sales tax.
34. Blank unrecorded tapes, sales tax 10%. Recorded entertainment, promotional or training tapes, tax: imp 30-35% & sales 10%. Require approval from National Film Auth, subject to Bo Censors screening. Consignee may be exempted if approval obtained from Ministry of Information; 4-8weeks.
35. 30% import tax and 10% sales tax. Approval must be obtained from the National Electricity Board. Board operates strict Mon-Fri business hours only. Failure to produce permits will result in inordinate delays.
36. 5% import tax and USD50.00 per kg. Approval must be obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture. Ministry operates strict Mon-Fri business hours only. Additional 48hours.
37. 15-25% import tax and 10% sales tax. Duties chargeable depending on the materials toys are made of.
38. 5-10% import tax and 10% sales tax.
39. Import tax 5-30% and sales tax 10%. Duties chargeable depending on composition of the yarn.

Hi, I would like to suggest you to go to Malaysian Custom Website and ask them the question yourself, either through e-mail or telephone. They will reply your e-mail within 3 working days.

I emailed them and they gave me a link to http://tariff.customs.gov.my/ , instructed me to search under tariff 8507 but I can't find anything related to NiMH batteries....

I don't know how you asked them, but maybe you should just ask them "is there any import duty and sales tax for batteries bought and sent in from US."

That is what I did everytime I have a query.

Cheers

wah.. nice thread! very informative! I been wondering and waiting for my car's rear light assembly to arrive. Won a bid on Ebay about 1 weeks ago. Now kinda worried about the tax & duties. Its used item, classic car part crazy price selling in Malaysia. At least double! So no choice got to grab from USofA. total price & shipping around US$ 150 which is roughly RM 450 plus minus la...  Been trying to use the http://tariff.customs.gov.my/ but I think my keywords are not correct. I cannot seem to find any info. Any tips on how to use it (the website)?

Are there any import or sales tax if I import one set of headphones from bulk order agents here? Its for personal use.

Hi, may I know how much import duty tax for face appliances like shaver, depilatory (using batteries to operate) etc? do we need to pay for SIRIM also if detained by kastam?

TQ

Oo.. so in theory I should not have to pay import duties then... aish.. can sleep better tonite, but even pay also never mind la.. got to have it... can die dun have it... Thanks Dreamworkz!