The American Chamber of Commerce in Malaysia (AmCham) is recently expecting huge American invests in Malaysia. This is a result of a Semiconductor's commitment to spend about RM1 billion for the establishment and expansion of megastructures and factories in Malaysia. It has been assured by the President Ramzi Toubassy that, American companies will get sufficient facilities and continue to be an important country for American companies to carry out all sort of investments.

Business investment outlook for American entrepreneur in Malaysia


This is undoubtedly an outcome of warm business relationship in between United States of America and Malaysia. In current time AmCham in Malaysia is representing 260 American and Malaysian companies. All of those companies have strong US backings in the field of finance, resource distributions and logistics.

Various US companies are now ready to set their corporate footprint in Malaysia. Companies like Coca cola, Metlife etc. have already invested more than billions to establish their next phase of business in Malaysia. Such companies are now planning to set their manufacturing and technical training sector here to equip manpower in Malaysia for expanding the production scopes.
In recent years USA is considered as one of the biggest trade partners in Malaysia. These companies are involved in various businesses in Malaysia, especially in fields of electronic and industrial compliance import exports and automobile parts.

So, what are the aspects influencing the buildup of trade bond between US and Malaysia?
Malaysia is one of the nations in south Asian edge that has fabulous GDP growth. Such economic stability and high economic growth influence foreign investors especially American entrepreneurs to set up big businesses in Malaysia.

Secondly, this country has already set their position as one of the optimized countries for easy going business policies. Malaysia is ranked 23rd in the world as the most convenient and friendly nation for doing trades according to the World Bank. 

To top with GDP and world bank’s ranking factors, Malaysia also offers great opportunities in field of social development conditions, affordability in case of living and optimized business opportunities for investors.

All these stepping stones apparently strengthening the economic bond between Malaysia and America. The survey shows that in recent year Malaysia approved U.S. investment proposals worth RM11.69 billion during the first half of the year. The investments are mostly made on manufacturing fields.  When it comes about comparing, this amount was just slightly above RM300 million in the previous year. Such big investment of USA took the top position of business investments and thereafter replaced Chinese investors.

Malaysia have approved manufacturing industries of several U.S. giant companies such as Dell Technologies Inc., Intel corp. etc. It is noticeable that Malaysia is showing more interests on tech-based US industries.

All these establishments and setups contributed on new employment sectors throughout the nation. Numerous employment and manufacturing fields are emerging. US companies are now rather investing on skill development in this nation. With that in mind, American business entrepreneurs in Malaysia are now focusing on skill development processes.

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