SIMPLIFYING TRADE VIA NATIONAL SINGLE WINDOW

myTRADELINK (www.mytradelink.gov.my) is Malaysia’s first and only trade facilitation portal, which converges the trade community with relevant governmental bodies as well as other global trade and logistic corporations.

An initiative of the Malaysian Government, led by the Ministry of Finance of Malaysia - and operated by Dagang Net Technologies Sdn Bhd, myTRADELINK is a single online platform for the trading community to access trade related information and exchanging documents required to fulfill regulatory trade processes for import, export or transit - regardless of time and place.

myTRADELINK is well equipped with the facilities to dynamically enhance our nation’s trade across borders, thus increasing our country’s competitiveness as a trading nation. This was demonstrated in the latest edition of the “Doing Business” Report recently released by the World Bank, where our nation showed significant improvement in terms of economic competitiveness. The report ranks Malaysia as 11th in the world in the ‘Trading Across Borders’ category – an evaluation of the ease of trade via ocean transport – which is a notable and commendable leap from last year’s 29th position.

The portal was launched by Deputy Finance Minister, YB Senator Dato’ Ir. Donal Lim Siang Chai, on 5th September 2012 with a fresher look and feel as well as improved user-friendly navigation to its six (6) available services; namely eDeclare (Customs declaration), ePayment (Customs duty payment), eManifest (cargo manifest declaration), ePCO (Preferential Certificate of Origin application), ePermit (permit application) and ePermitSTA (Strategic Trade Act permit application). This single connectivity access provides a seamless connection to enable the secured, safe and efficient exchange of international trade information. All necessary trade paperwork can now be prepared, submitted, verified and approved online via a single portal, thus eliminating the inconvenience of manual transactions and boosting the industry’s productivity.

The portal’s convenient reusability of data and information eliminates the need for repetitive   submission of similar information. Furthermore, the approval procedures via the portal’s various services are transparent, giving users peace of mind and reliable expectations for subsequent dealings.

The portal also features value-added content on trade facilitation industry including the trade repository comprising important information such as directory of industry players and agencies, trade and permit issuing agencies regulations, which will serve to benefits users in their daily operations.

“I trust that with the emergence of myTRADELINK, the fulfilment of trade procedures will attain unprecedented heights of simplicity.” - Y.Bhg. Dato’ Sri Dr Mohd Irwan Serigar Bin Abdullah
Secretary General of Treasury

“With the availability of myTRADELINK, scheduling freight shipments is now faster, easier and more convenient. Our operational efficiency has vastly improved since the exchange of important paperwork and cargo data with shippers, carriers, governmental bodies and other related parties can now be done online via a single portal.” - Federation of Malaysian Freight Forwarders, Mr. Alvin Chua, President

“Customs administration pertaining to imported and exported goods has been made hassle-free with the availability of myTRADELINK and its single point access to all relevant trade services. These services have allowed for smoother payment, trade declaration and permit validation procedures, which greatly benefit both our department and members of trading community.” - Royal Malaysian Customs Department,  -    Yg Berbahagia Dato’ Sri Khazali Bin Haji Ahmad, Director General