The Malaysian government is more optimistic of achieving a deal with the United States to reduce tariffs imposed on goods imported from Malaysia, said Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz in an interview with Reuters on May 15.
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00:00The state of the World Trade, all the ministers when discussed, many during that session has well.
00:12One thing for sure, I'm a bit more optimistic, especially after engaging with Ambassador Greer and his team.
00:24And of course, our chief negotiator is also talking to USDR, assistant USDR, on this issue.
00:33We're moving in the right direction.
00:35And recently, we also see the de-escalation between US and China over the weekend in Geneva.
00:42And before that, there was an announcement as well within UK and US.
00:46So we think, you know, at the end of the day, if we can show a win-win solution for both countries, we should come to an amicable agreement.
00:58As I mentioned, we have signed an NDA with the United States.
01:02But what I can share is that industries that are important to Malaysia, of course, we will bring it up.
01:09Those industries, as you know, you mentioned one of them is aerospace, the other one is semiconductor.
01:15You know, these are sectors or industries that are key to Malaysia.
01:20And these are industries that are important in terms of our export market, our export to countries like the United States.
01:29We can get a lot of free.
01:32But I think we need to make sure that the company is really important to the standard.
01:34It's a very important thing.
01:36We need to help protect our activity and your country.
01:39We need to help protect our industrialạiCloud to our students.
01:42Once we are in theDING, we just need to help, let's be our country.
01:44That's all that we need to do.
01:45You know all the things we don't need to do today.
01:48So we need our country to help protect our students.
01:51And we will protect our community.
01:53We need to help protect our people.
01:54Yes, we need to help protect our community.