Malaysia Hotline: +603-2141 8908
1. What is the Malaysia
Representative Office?
The Representative Office is
the office of a foreign company in Malaysia. The main purpose is to
collect information related to investment opportunities in Malaysia to
strengthen bilateral trade relations, whether in goods, services or research
and development. The representative office needs to be approved by the
relevant government departments before it can be established.
2. What Activities Can The Representative Office Carry Out?
An approved
office is designed to perform the following permitted activities for its
Headquarters
or client:
i) Collect
and analyze important information or study the feasibility of investment and
business opportunities in Malaysia and the region;
ii) Plan or
coordinate business activities;
iii) Confirm
the source of raw materials, components or other industrial products;
iv) Do
research and product development;
v) As the
focal point for the head office, subsidiaries and agents of the head office in
the country;
vi) Other
activities that do not directly lead to actual commercial transactions.
3. What Activities Can't The Representative Office Do?
i) Engage in any trade (including
import and export), business or any form of commercial activity;
ii) Lease storage facilities; any
cargo shipment/transportation or storage should be handled by your local agent
or dealer;
iii) Signing a business contract or
providing a fee-based service on behalf of a foreign company;
iv) Daily management of any
subsidiary, affiliate or branch of the company in Malaysia.
4. What Qualifications Do You Need For A Representative Office?
i) The proposed operating expenses
of Representative Office must be at least RM300, 000 per year.
ii) Funds of Representative Office
should be provided from outside Malaysia.
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