Royal Malaysian Customs (JKDM)
The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (RMCD) — Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia (JKDM) — is Malaysia's customs authority, responsible for administering and collecting import and export duties, the Sales and Service Tax (SST), excise duties, and enforcing customs and trade controls. It supervises all goods crossing Malaysia's borders and administers the country's customs procedures and facilitation schemes.
Declarations are made on the Customs “K” forms (K1 for imports, K2 for exports, and others) through Malaysia's customs system, now the national uCustoms platform. RMCD also administers free zones, Licensed Manufacturing Warehouses (LMW), bonded warehouses and duty-exemption/drawback schemes that support export-oriented manufacturing. For anyone importing into, exporting from or manufacturing in Malaysia, RMCD is the central authority whose duties, SST, declarations and facilitation schemes shape the cost and process of trade. Understanding its procedures is essential to clearing goods and operating compliantly in Malaysia.
Every Malaysian import, export and manufacturing operation runs through RMCD — its duties, SST, K-form declarations and facilitation schemes (LMW, free zones, drawback) determine the cost and process of trade. Understanding the department and its uCustoms procedures is fundamental to clearing goods and operating compliantly in Malaysia.
What does Royal Malaysian Customs administer?
Import/export duties, the Sales and Service Tax (SST), excise, customs declarations (K-forms via uCustoms), and facilitation schemes like free zones and Licensed Manufacturing Warehouses.
How are declarations made?
On Customs K-forms (K1 import, K2 export, etc.) through the national uCustoms platform.