Malaysia export control update

As many of traders who are involved in Malaysia export operation are interested in, Malaysia implement the export control regulation based on Strategic Trade Act 2010 ("STA") from July 1, 2011.

Recently I find "Slides for STA 2010" in Malaysia MITI web site.  It is presentation material concisely summarizing the STA rule and implementation.  Most of information in this slide is not new, but good reference material for briefing how the regulation works.

But I find interesting topics as below which imply the full implementation is practically not on July 1, but will be on August 1.   Belows are page number 28 and 29 of the slides.  Yes, the rule is from July 1st, but still the customs declaration & online permit application is under trial basis until July 31.

SELF DECLARATION
- Effective 1 July 2011, there will be a compulsory field in the K2 and K8 forms (*) to declare whether the products being exported are strategic items or non-strategic items.
(*) These forms are customs declaration forms in exporting out of Malaysia.
- If your product is ticked as strategic item, the system will then prompt for the STA export permit license number to be entered.
- This system will be on a trial period of one month until end of 31 July 2011 and fully enforced on 1 August 2011.  (Highlighted by blog author)

ONLINE PERMIT APPLICATIONS
-  Effective 1 July 2011 and export permit applications under the STA will go online.
- Every permit application should be accompanied with end-user statements from all end-users that the product is being exported to.
- This system will be on a trial period of one month until end of 31 July 2011 and fully enforced on 1 August 2011.  (Highlighted by blog author)

(Sourece:  http://www.miti.gov.my/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.section.Section_356e3af1-c0a81573-272f272f-b7977e99 )