71142 v2 Malaysia: Trade At-A-Glance Dec-08 2007 GDP 2007 GDP 2007 Share 2007 Trade Membership No. of RTAs/ EIAs (millions) per capita in World Trade per capita GATT WTO Goods Services $171,753 $6,475 1.08% $13,550 1957 1995 5 3 Malaysia TRADE PERFORMANCE ‡ EAP Ranking Decile TP Upper mid inc TRADE POLICY (TP) (out of 125) 24 2 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (EE) (out of 126) 71 6 TO EE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT (IE) (out of 181) 20 2 TRADE FACILITATION (TF) (out of 151) 27 2 TRADE OUTCOME (TO) (out of 161) 139 9 TF IE ‡ Rankings are based on the "representative" indicators (in bold) in each group below for the latest year Outer bound represents best value in latest year TRADE POLICY (TP)  1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Trade Tariff Restrictiveness Index (MFN applied tariffs)& 5.3 3.9 4.1 * TTRI (applied tariffs including preferences) & .. 3.4 3.0 * TTRI Overall TRI (OTRI, applied tariffs incl. prefs.+NTMs)& .. 23.4 23.8 * (MFN) Other trade policy indicators MFN applied tariff - simple avg (%) 11.3 8.3 8.4 8.4 * Applied Dispersion (coefficient of variation) 5.5 2.5 3.1 3.1 * tariff (wgt avg) Maximum rate 2386.2 300.0 1000.0 1000.0 * Agriculture - simple avg (%) 26.1 3.3 11.6 11.7 * Import Nonagriculture - simple avg (%) 9.1 9.1 7.9 7.9 * duties MFN applied tariff - trade weighted avg (%) 6.3 4.7 4.6 4.6 * MFN zero-duty imports (% in total imports) 63.1 69.5 76.4 76.1 * Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - trade weighted avg (%) 5.9 4.2 3.8 3.6 * Nontariff measures Agriculture 13.0 1.6 13.3 13.3 * Nonagriculture 5.5 4.3 3.2 3.1 * 0 10 20 30 40 50 Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - production weighted avg (%) .. 5.1 4.3 * EAP Upper mid inc Malaysia Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) escalation (finished% minus raw%) .. 5.4 5.4 * Agriculture .. .. 9.6 9.7 * Nonagriculture .. .. 7.5 7.5 * Import duties (% of imports) 2.2 1.0 .. .. Services commit. Tariff overhang (MFN bound less MFN applied rate,%) 3.3 6.3 60.6 60.6 * Bound tariff frequency ratio (% of total lines) .. 83.4 83.8 83.7 * Specific tariffs frequency ratio (%) 0.5 1.0 0.9 0.9 * 0 40 80 Non-tariff measures frequency ratio (%) .. 14.2 .. .. EAP Upper mid inc Malaysia Overall GATS commitment index (0-100, best) .. 25.4 25.4 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (EE)  1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ MA-TTRI (applied tariffs incl. prefs.)& 2.6 2.3 * MA-OTRI (applied tariffs incl. prefs.+NTMs)& 11.4 9.9 * MA-TTRI Other external environment indicators ROW applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - weighted avg (%) 9.1 2.2 1.7 1.4 * MFN duty free Agriculture 11.2 11.5 8.1 5.3 * (exports) Nonagriculture 8.9 1.7 1.3 1.2 * MFN zero-duty exports (% of total exports) 44.8 68.3 72.4 69.7 * Value of prefer Exports with FTA / CU partners (% of total exports) 50.1 54.6 53.7 53.5 * Preferences (EU+U.S.) utilization rate (%) .. .. 52.9 51.8 * 0 1 Lowest Highest Preferences (EU+U.S.) actual value (% of exports) .. .. 0.2 0.2 * EAP Upper mid inc Malaysia Real effective exchange rate (% change,+ =apprec.) -3.8 -0.7 2.6 0.9 ^ Indicators shown are period averages, incl. growth rates. Latest indicates 2008; when not available, 2006 or 2007 is used(noted by *). For more infor., see User's Guide at http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008. ŸMFN: most favored nation; NTM: nontariff measures; MA: market access; ROW: rest of the world; FTA: free trade agreement; CU: customs union; WTO: World Trade Organization GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; WGI: World Government Indicators; ".." indicates missing value; RTA/EIA: regional trade arrangement / economic integration arrangement; & 2007 are preliminary estimates Malaysia Trade At-A-Glance Dec-08 INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT (IE) 2004 2006 2007 2008 Ease of Doing Business (rank out of 181) .. .. 25 20 Starting a business (rank) .. .. 82 75 Enforcing contracts (rank) .. .. 60 75 Ease of Doing Closing a business (rank) .. 57 59 Business Other institutional environment indicators WGI - Regulatory Quality (-2.5 to +2.5, best) 0.97 0.99 1.07 .. 0 80 160 WGI - Rule of Law (-2.5 to +2.5, best) 0.54 0.55 0.53 .. EAP Upper mid inc Malaysia WGI - Control of Corruption (-2.5 to +2.5, best) 0.37 0.30 0.19 .. TRADE FACILITATION (TF) 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Logistics Performance Index (LPI, 1 to 5 best) .. .. 3.5 3.5 * Efficiency of customs and other border procedures .. .. 3.4 3.4 * Logistic Index Quality of transport and IT infrastructures .. .. 3.3 3.3 * International transportation costs .. .. 3.4 3.4 * Logistics competence .. .. 3.4 3.4 * Trading Trackability of shipments .. .. 3.5 3.5 * Across Borders Domestic transportation costs .. .. 3.1 3.1 * Timeliness of shipment .. .. 3.9 3.9 * Other trade facilitation indicators UNCTAD Shipping Doing Business - Trading Across Borders (rank out of 181) .. 24 29 No. of documents required for exports .. .. 7 7 No. of days process required for exports .. .. 33 33 Telephones Cost to export (US$ per container) .. .. 432 450 per 100 No. of documents required for imports .. .. 7 7 No. of days process required for imports .. .. 14 14 Secondary Cost to import (US$ per container) .. .. 385 450 enrollment Liner shipping connectivity index (0-100 best) .. .. 65.7 81.5 Telephones and mobiles per 100 people 27.4 57.7 96.2 104.3 * 0 Lowest 1 Highest Average cost of 3-minute call to U.S. (US$) 4.5 1.7 .. .. EAP Upper mid inc Malaysia Internet usage (per 100 people) 4.5 31.5 53.0 56.5 * Secondary gross school enrollment (%) 65.9 67.9 69.1 .. * TRADE OUTCOME (TO) ## 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Real growth in trade of goods and services (%) 7.4 8.0 7.3 2.2 12 Exports 9.5 7.0 7.1 4.0 10 9.5 9.4 9.1 8 8.0 8.0 7.9 Imports 5.2 9.2 7.6 0.2 7.4 6.4 7.3 6 5.9 6.0 Other trade outcome indicators 4 Trade integration (trade as % of GDP) 197.0 214.2 210.1 203.4 2 2.2 FDI inflow (% of GDP) 4.6 2.9 3.3 2.9 0 1995-99 2000-04 2005-07 2008 World trade share growth (%) -0.3 -0.6 -2.4 -4.1 Trade Growth Rate Exports 2.0 -1.0 -2.5 -1.9 Malaysia EAP Upper mid inc Imports -2.6 -0.1 -2.3 -6.9 Merchandise share in total exports (%) 85.3 87.3 87.4 86.9 Exports Share (2005-07) Agriculture 11.3 8.3 8.4 8.5 * Service, Agric, Manufacturing 65.9 68.6 65.2 64.9 * 12.6 8.4 Mining, fuel and others 8.1 10.4 14.3 14.6 * Service share in total exports (%) 14.7 12.7 12.6 13.1 Mining, 14.3 Tourism 4.0 5.7 5.8 6.3 * Transportation 2.9 2.5 2.8 3.4 * Other services 7.8 4.6 4.0 4.1 * Export product concentration index (0 to 100, highest) 19.4 21.0 18.8 18.6 * Manuf, Export market concentration index (0 to 100, highest) 32.3 31.1 29.6 29.2 * 65.2 Top 5 exports share (% of merchandise exports) .. .. 43.7 42.3 * Top 5 exports (SITC Rev. 2; 3 digit) ( 776) Valves or transistors ( 752) Computer equipment (759) Office equipment ( 333) Petroleum crude ( 422) Vegetable oils ^ Indicators shown are period averages, incl. growth rates. Latest indicates 2008; when not available, 2006 or 2007 is used (noted by *). For more info., see User's Guide at http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008 ## Most outcome indicators (mostly through 2007) are from the WDI (World Bank, Data Group), UNCTAD or COMTRADE; for filling gaps and 2008, data from the Prospects Group are used.