Guide — Importer Compliance Checklist

Checklist

1. Market position. Confirm products of this type may be registered and sold in your market. If the position is unclear, obtain a written local legal opinion first.
2. Licence status. Confirm your organisation holds, or is applying for, the import and distribution licences your market requires for smoking-category products.
3. Registration or notification. Plan the filing (UK notification; Malaysia Act 852 registration; UAE ECAS registration) and list the documents it needs from the manufacturer — composition file, process description, standard text, format sheet.
4. Classification. Take an advance ruling or broker opinion on HS classification (our research position: 2402.90) and confirm how excise or tax applies under it.
5. Artwork. Fix warning wording, ingredient declaration format, language and tax-stamp requirements for your market; export artwork is prepared from these texts.
6. Channel plan. Confirm the licensed channels the product will move through (in Malaysia: offline licensed channels only).
7. RFQ. Send the enquiry with the outcomes of steps 1 to 6. Quotations state the market, the classification assumption and the registration route they are built on.

Documents we supply for the checklist

• Full composition file
• Production process description
• Enterprise standard Q/YKDZ 002-2022 (text for filing)
• Format and packaging sheet (20 sticks per pack, 10 packs per carton, paper box)
• Manufacturer and brand-owner entity details