Malaysia duty free

The following goods may be imported into Malaysia without incurring customs duty:
• Max 1L of alcoholic drinks.
• Max 3 pieces of new apparels and 1 new pair of shoes.
• Food up to the value of RM 150.
• 1 new portable electronic item for personal care.
• Other goods up to the value of RM 500 for land or sea travellers and up to the value of RM 1,000 for air travellers (excluding tyres and tubes; cigarettes; tobacco products; smoking pipes including pipe bowls; electronic cigarettes and similar personal electric vaporising devices; preparation of a kind used for smoking through electronic cigarette and electric vaporising device, in forms of liquid or gel, whether or not containing nicotine).

Prohibited Imports

Illicit drugs, counterfeit currency, indecent publications (books, films, paintings etc), anything considered prejudicial to the interest of Malaysia, piranha fish, turtle eggs, cocoa pods, daggers or flick knives, articles resembling syringes (eg pens or pencils), and poisonous chemicals. 

Also prohibited unless accompanied by an import licence are animals, fish, meat, plants, eggs in their shells, explosives and fireworks, arms and ammunition, imitation arms, soil, rice, coral and pharmaceutical products.

Prohibited Exports

Illicit drugs, turtle eggs and rattan from the Malaysian peninsula.

Also prohibited unless accompanied by an export licence are animals, birds, poultry, meat, cockles, plants, over 3kg of vegetables, palm kernels and seeds, military clothing and equipment, arms and ammunition, antiquities, sugar, rice, coral, live prawns/shrimp/fish, and collections of cultural value (eg of zoological or archaeological interest).