stepen

How complicated is it to do the import of tax free items? Can you do it several times? Can you send by post, dhl etc? Do you have to go to customs office standing in line waiting to get this in tax free, or is quick and smooth?

bakedbean

I believe that, with the conditional approval letter, it is fairly easy to do several times. Friends did this.... they had household items in several different countries (many homes!) and no problems I believe. Was a few years ago.

kiat137

Once you got MM2H visa stamped on your passport and have a resident address in Malaysia, the logistic company will settle everything for you.

Gunnar45

In 2010 I sent my personal stuff (1 x 20ft container) from Kuwait to Penang.
As per advice from my MM2H agent I had two contracts for the shipment, one with a Kuwaiti shipping agent for the transport from home in Kuwait to Penang port and another one with a local (Penang) company for customs clearance and local transport.
When I arrived in Penang appr 3.5 month after the container was loaded in Kuwait, all all my things were already in the condo.

RedApe

I have about 5000 Records and Compact discs as well as a about 1000 books.

Do I have to go through and list each one individually for Malaysian Customs or can I simply write on the box "200 CD's".

Also anyone import videos? Do they really charge the "listening/review" fee?

Fenella

Don't know about the CDs, but we imported lots of books (to KL). The removals company that did the packing did not note titles of books. Merely packed them into boxes and we had no import problems.

SushiFan

Malaysian customs could have two reasons for being interested in your shipment:
(i) is this for personal use or for commercial use? (i.e. do you plan to sell these? especially as the quantity seems rather high)
(ii) are the materials not banned by Malaysian censorship? Not all books/videos can be imported into Malaysia.

Gunnar45

Yes, I read somewhere (maybe in the old MM2H forum) that declaring books may not be so wise as they may want to read through all of them to check that there is no forbidden and/or subversive material in them.