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Trade surplus may narrow in months ahead, BUSINESS TIMES

By Nor Sadnawaty Saifuddin
Publication: Business Times (Malaysia)
Date: Thursday, August 2 2001


Business Times (Malaysia)

08-02-2001

MALAYSIA'S trade surplus is expected to continue to narrow but remain
positive in the next few months amid slower exports as well as intermediate
goods imports.
The Statistics Department announced yesterday that the country's trade
surplus for June declined 30.8 per cent year-on-year to RM3.3 billion,
largely due to a fall in the export of mainstays electronic and electrical
products.
Just over half of the country's total exports is contributed by the
manufacturing sector, of which electronics a

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