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Information on sending a shipment to Malaysia

Prohibited commodities
Standard DHL prohibitions plus: 1.All items offensive to Muslim culture, particularly publications, films and video tapes, are prohibited. 2.All WPX to and from Israel must be approved by MITI (Malaysian Int'l Trade & Industry) prior to export and import. However, there is no restriction for DOX shpts.
    Antiques
    Furs
    Jewellery
    Pornography
    Precious metals & stones

Certain commodities need to be accompanied by an invoice and, in some cases, additional customs documentation. Other commodities are considered as 'Documents' and only require a DHL Airwaybill to be completed. The following list explains what you need to do in order to ship various commodities.
Document Commodities
(Require a DHL Airwaybill)
Commodities where you should contact your local customer service Department to clarify shipping requirements.

Advertising brochures/pamphlets
Airline tickets, issued/validated
Annual reports
Artwork inc.drawings/proofs/layouts
Business cards
Cash letters (NI)
Charts/graphs
Cheques, blank (NI)
Cheques, cancelled (NI)
Cheques, cashier (NI)
Computer printouts
Credit card blanks (NI)
Credit cards (NI)
Deeds
Diskettes
Documents, general business
Drawings, technical/architect/eng.
Invoices, not blank
Manuals, technical
Manuscripts
Maps
Money orders (NI)
Music, printed or manuscript
Paper patterns for wearing apparel
Passports
Personal mail
Photographs
Photos as part of business reports
Plans/drawings-arch/indust/eng. pur
Price lists
Price tickets for garments
Ship manifest-computer generated
Shipping schedules
Transparencies
Visa applications
Airline tickets, blank stock (NI)
Alcoholic beverages
Biological Substance Cat B, UN3373
Blank forms
Blueprints
Booklets, brochures (non-adv.)
Books: hardbk/paperbk non-comm. use
Bunker oil sample (for analysis)
Calendars
Catalogues
Ceramic products
Chemicals, non-hazardous
Circuits & circuit boards
Clocks/watches
Coal & firewood
Coffee
Coffee samples
Cologne and perfume
Communications equipment
Compact disc
Computer components & parts
Computer software
Cosmetics
Cotton
Cotton seed
Diaries
Drugs: non-prescription
Drugs: prescription
Electronic equipment
Electronic games
Eye glasses and contacts
Fabrics & fabric samples
Films: 8mm, 16mm & 35mm
Films: entertainment
Films: promotional, training
Fire extinguishers
Foodstuffs
Fotolithos
Glass products
Grain samples
Industrial equipment
Invoices, blank
Isopropanol
Jewellery, costume
Labels
Laser disc
Leather goods
Liquids, non-hazardous
Magazines, periodicals, journals
Marble products
Measuring apparatus
Medical samples
Medical/dental supplies & equipment
Microfiche & microfilm
Military equipment
Mobile phones,accessories&component
Negatives, including x-rays, films
Newspapers
Oil products
Pamphlets
Parts, machine & electronic
Perishables
Personal effects
Phones/modems
Plant products
Plants
Plastic made products
Playing cards
Publication not for public resale
Publications for public resale
Radar equip.-transmitters/receivers
Radios, radio equipment or parts
Rubber made products
Seeds
Ship spares
Shoes
Slides
Soil samples
Sports equipment
Stationery
Stone/mineral samples for analysis
Subs. cont'g sodium/calc. cyclamate
Swatches
Tapes: audio cassettes
Tapes: computer
Tapes: video cassettes
Tea
Telecommunication equipment
Televisions, television equipment
Textile articles
Tobacco
Toys
Typewriter ribbons
Wallpaper
Works of art
Yarn

All other commodities should be shipped via DHL Parcel Express and should be accompanied by an Airwaybill and Invoice.
Restrictions

If your shipment exceeds any of the following limits, it may require special handling, please contact your local country customer service department.

Size : Length 118 cm (46 ins), Width 88 cm (35 ins), Height 120 cm (47 ins)
Weight : Max. weight per piece : 50.0 kg (110.0 lbs)