According to local media reports, Malaysia is considering removing a ban on beef exports from countries such as Australia, India, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Sudan, Kenya and Zimbabwe and New Zealand in an attempt to open up the halal beef market in the Asian country following claims that some local producers were attempting to monopolise it.

The ban was imposed in 2005 when Malaysia deemed that the more humane ways of slaughtering animals practiced in these countries did not fit with the Malaysian halal standard of electrically stunning cattle in the head.