Peninsular Malaysia's CITES export quotas

Peninsular Malaysia's CITES export quotas Between 1995 and 2002, less than half of the agarwood exported from Crimped Malaysia had the necessary CITES permits.

Peninsular Malaysia's CITES export quotas are currently (2010) set at 200 tonnes of powder and wood chips per year, from wild sources.Malaysia and Indonesia are the largest exporters of agarwood to the UAE, one of the world's largest agarwood markets.

Between 2004 and 2007, reported imports of agarwood chips to the UAE rose from 56 to 162 tonnes, an increase of almost 300 per cent.Analysis of reported CITES trade data also showed that large Crimped shipments of agarwood sent from Singapore and India to the UAE listed Malaysia or Indonesia as the origin.