KUALA LUMPUR: The sales value of Malaysia’s manufacturing sector expanded by 8.6 per cent year-on-year in December 2022 to RM156.3 billion while the overall performance reached RM1.8 trillion in 2022, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).
In a statement today, chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the expansion of sales value in December last year was reinforced by the double-digit growth in transport equipment and other manufactures subsector (10.9 per cent), particularly in the manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers industries.
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