Malaysia

Here is an indication of restricted items for mailing to Malaysia. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Malaysian Post website

Please also refer to the Universal Postal Union - online prohibitions search tool

You must not send any item addressed to a country in which the item is unlawful or prohibited. When an item is restricted you must comply with the restriction. Prohibitions and restrictions vary from country to country, and can sometimes apply to items which you may think are ordinary. The information above is provided in good faith, but Royal Mail is not responsible for it, and it should be viewed as a guide only. Specific restrictions and changes may be enforced at short notice, so for clarification please contact the destination country's trade, postal, and customs authorities as appropriate. Business customers are strongly recommended to do this.

Please remember that Royal Mail also prohibits and restricts certain categories of items. For more information visit royalmail.com/prohibitedgoods

Restricted items

• Live animals; animal products
• Live animals
• Meat and edible meat offal
• Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• Vegetable products
• Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
• Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• Coffee, tea, maté and spices
• Cereals
• Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Mineral products
• Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials; lime and cement
• Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Organic chemicals
• Pharmaceutical products
• Fertilisers
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
• Plastics and articles thereof
• Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
• Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• Textiles and textile articles
• Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
• Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
• Headgear and parts thereof
• Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
• Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers and parts and accessories of such articles
• Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
• Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Miscellaneous manufactured articles
• Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
   

For more information about posting an item to Malaysia please refer to the Malaysian Post website

To help facilitate customs clearance, it is recommended that you provide recipient contact details (email address and/or phone number) so that recipients are contactable if any information is missing or incorrect. Contact details should be provided within the electronic customs data or in the case of a CN23 on the physical declaration. To ensure this information is protected do not write these contact details separately on the outside item.