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MalaysiaProposed measure, may since have been adopted

Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof

Official title

Technical Code for Land Mobile Radio Equipment – Specifications (Second Revision) (MCMC MTSFB TC T012:2025)

Malaysia notified a revised version of this proposed TBT measure on 21 November 2025. The measure was first notified on 24 March 2016. The comment period closed on 20 January 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Land Mobile Radio (LMR) equipment, including base stations, repeater stations, mobile stations, and handheld terminals intended for voice and/or data communications. Radiocommunications (ICS:33.060)

HS codes
  • 85 · Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles
    • 851761 Base stations of apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data
    • 851762 Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, incl. switching and routing apparatus (excl. telephone…
    • 851769 Apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, incl. apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network [such as a local…
    • 852560 Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, incorporating reception apparatus
Notifying member
Malaysia
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 21 November 2025. Check WTO ePing or Malaysia for its current status.
Objectives
  • Other
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/MYS/68Latest notice: G/TBT/N/MYS/68/Rev.1

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 20 January 2026
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The comment period closed on 20 January 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/MYS/68/Rev.1; it can take them up with Malaysia.

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What the notification says

The Technical Code was developed for the purpose of certifying communications equipment in accordance with regulation 14 of the Communications and Multimedia (Technical Standards) Regulations 2000 [P.U.(A) 124/2000]. The Technical Code specifies the minimum technical requirements for Land Mobile Radio (LMR) equipment, including base stations, repeater stations, mobile stations, and handheld terminals intended for voice and/or data communications. Land Mobile Radio (LMR) equipment shall operate within the designated frequency bands, channel spacing, and transmit power levels as specified in Table B.1 of the document.

Notices on this measure

Every notice about this measure published here, newest first. Each one is the notifying member's own text.

  1. RevisionG/TBT/N/MYS/68/Rev.1

    Comment deadline: Closed on 20 January 2026

    Technical Code for Land Mobile Radio Equipment – Specifications (Second Revision) (MCMC MTSFB TC T012:2025)

    The Technical Code was developed for the purpose of certifying communications equipment in accordance with regulation 14 of the Communications and Multimedia (Technical Standards) Regulations 2000 [P.U.(A) 124/2000]. The Technical Code specifies the minimum technical requirements for Land Mobile Radio (LMR) equipment, including base stations, repeater stations, mobile stations, and handheld terminals intended for voice and/or data communications. Land Mobile Radio (LMR) equipment shall operate within the designated frequency bands, channel spacing, and transmit power levels as specified in Table B.1 of the document.

  2. Regular notificationG/TBT/N/MYS/68

    Comment deadline: Closed on 23 May 2016

    Specification for Land Mobile Radio Equipment (First Revision) (18 pages, in English)

    This document defines the minimum technical requirements for radio equipment to be used in LMR services and will be used for the compliance approval (type approval) process. LMR equipment includes base stations/repeater stations, mobile stations and handheld terminals, which are intended for voice and/or data communication. LMR equipment shall use constant envelope angle modulation with 12.5 kHz or 25 kHz channel spacing for analogue system.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

All updates from Malaysia
  1. WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, open for comments

    Communications Equipment – Baseline Requirements (MCMC MTSFB TC T022:2026)

    This Technical Code was developed for the purpose of certifying communications equipment under the Communications and Multimedia (Technical Standards) Regulations 2000 [P.U.(A) 124/2000]. This Technical Code establishes the minimum baseline requirements for all communications equipment, including…

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/MYS/142Comments until 3 January 2027

  2. WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, open for comments

    Short Range Devices – Specifications (Third Revision) (MCMC MTSFB TC T007:2026)

    This Technical Code was developed for the purpose of certifying communications equipment under the Communications and Multimedia (Technical Standards) Regulations 2000 [P.U.(A) 124/2000]. This Technical Code specifies the technical requirements for SRDs operating in the frequency bands defined in…

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/MYS/141Comments until 3 January 2027

  3. WTO notificationTBTCorrected since it was notified

    Draft Amendments to Regulations 2 and 361 of the Food Regulations 1985 [P.U.(A) 437/1985].

    The proposed amendments to the Food Regulations 1985 [P.U.(A) 437/1985] are as follows: Regulation 2 is to insert new definition of ‘lot identification code’; and; Regulation 361 is to insert new subregulations (3A) and (3B); and to amend subregulation (8) regarding lot identification code…

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/MYS/139/Corr.1Comments until 22 December 2026

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