MATRADE To Continue Monitoring Market Conditions, Providing Exporters With Timely Intelligence
KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 (Bernama) -- The Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) will continue to monitor market conditions in real time, feeding intelligence back to Malaysian exporters as conditions shift.
Its chairman Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican said the situation in West Asia remains fluid, and global supply chains will continue to require careful navigation in the months ahead.
“This is precisely why MATRADE's role does not end with the publication of a set of statistics. As encouraging as this half-year has been, MATRADE does not view it as a moment of complacency.
“This half-year's numbers show one thing clearly, Malaysian exports have made a significant contribution to our national export success,” he said in a statement.
MATRADE's task, as it has always been, is to reinforce and fortify trade resilience and export competitiveness in global markets, he said.
Reezal Merican added that the agency, through its network of 47 overseas trade offices, will continue to monitor market conditions in real time, feeding intelligence back to Malaysian exporters as conditions shift.
Through its Trade Resilience Task Force, MATRADE will bring together the insights needed to help exporters, from its largest industrial players to the smallest small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), anticipate disruption rather than merely reacting to it.
“And through our continuing engagement with the business community, we remain committed to ensuring that every Malaysian company, regardless of size or sector, has access to the market intelligence, commercial diplomacy and strategic guidance needed to convert global demand into sustained, domestically rooted growth,” he said.
Malaysia’s total trade grew by 22.4 per cent year on year to a record RM1.796 trillion; exports grew by 27.5 per cent to RM971.59 billion, the fastest pace since 2021.
Malaysia's trade surplus also expanded 159.8 per cent to RM147.15 billion, matching 94 per cent of what the country had achieved in the whole of 2025.
Equally significant, Malaysia recorded trade surpluses with 158 trading partners, with 92 posting wider surpluses than a year ago.
-- BERNAMA