Malaysia’s September exports rose 6.7% from a year earlier thanks to stronger shipments of electronics, while imports slipped, widening the trade surplus to the highest in a decade, Nikkei Asian Review reports. The surplus, however, could be short lived as Malaysia braces the impact from the trade war between China and the US. A worsening trade war could drag down global output by 0.4 percentage points by 2020. This means, the Malaysian economy could in turn lose up to 0.7 percentage points, according to a report by the finance ministry, The Economic Outlook 2019. Recent data indicates the trade tension is indeed beginning to bite, Asian exporting countries from South Korea to Malaysia saw PMI decreases in October, according to indices compiled by Nikkei/IHS Markit.