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Customs Regulations and Contact Information

The regulations relating to customs in a particular country.

Malaysia applies two systems of tariff classification:

i. trade inside ASEAN
a.The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)

b.ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA)

c.ASEAN Harmonized Tariff Nomenclature (AHTN)

https://asean.org/asean-economic-community/

ii. the Harmonised System
a.for trade with other countries up to the six figure level.

The Malaysian Customs classification is founded on the

Harmonised System (HS) of 2002.

b. There are 10,579 tariff lines at the nine figure level in
Malaysia's tariff structure.

c.The Customs classification of goods is based on the

International Nomenclature of the Harmonised System.
d.All imported and exported goods into the country must

be categorized based on the Malaysian Customs tariff

numbers.

e.Any queries regarding classification of import and
export goods should be made to the particular

customs station of which the goods are to be imported.