Samsung Electronics Co.’s overall sales to the Americas, over the January-June period, were 26 percent of the total. That’s 5.8 percent lower from the 31.8 percent posted for the entire past year. The company posted sales of 83.9 trillion won ($74.6 billion) for the first two quarters of 2018. Concurrently with the slower performance in the Americas, Asia’s top economy continued its rise from 18.5 percent in 2013, 20.6 in 2014, 28.3 in 2017, all the way to 32.7 percent for the January-June period of this year.
