KUALA LUMPUR: The growth rate of Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) could fall to below 4% in 2019 if the United States and China continue to hike tariffs on a wider range of imports from each other.
Socio-Economic Research Centre (SERC) executive director Lee Heng Guie cautioned that Malaysia’s economic performance could be “substantially affected” if the trade war worsens, as both the US and China are the country’s major export markets.
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