KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 — Fourteen official visits and trade and investment missions led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani were conducted from 2025 to September 2026 through the country's trade and investment agencies.
The Investment, Trade and Industry Ministry (MITI) said the missions were undertaken through the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) and the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), generating RM59.5 billion in potential investments.
Of the total, RM14.2 billion in investments have been approved, while the remaining RM45.3 billion are at various stages of negotiation and are being continuously followed up, MITI added.
"As for the breakdown of realised investments, a project typically takes between 18 and 24 months to materialise, depending on its scale, complexity and prevailing economic conditions," MITI said in a written Dewan Rakyat reply today.
It added that MIDA would continue its follow-up, monitoring and facilitation efforts to ensure identified investment opportunities translate into actual project implementation.
On the trade front, MITI said official visits to countries including Kenya, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Türkiye, Japan, Italy, France, South Korea, China, Thailand, India and Russia had yielded positive results, generating RM6.77 billion in exports through high-level engagements.
"In addition, MATRADE continues to diversify its export promotion efforts into new markets in Central Asia, Africa and Latin America. From January to September 2026, these three regions collectively recorded a 23.06 per cent increase in exports to RM69.84 billion," MITI said.
It added that markets recording double-digit export growth included Namibia (426.1 per cent), Angola (55.6 per cent), Brazil (41.0 per cent), Tanzania (35.9 per cent), Ethiopia (28.5 per cent) and Kenya (11.6 per cent).
