Showing posts with label TPPA memo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TPPA memo. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 August 2013

Malay businessmen hand TPPA memo to PM, seek 75 non-negotiable conditions

Najib receiving the memorandum from Nizam at the Raya open house today. The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim. August 28, 2013.
Najib receiving the memorandum from Nizam at the Raya open house today. The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim. August 28, 2013.


A group representing 650,000 Malay entrepreneurs wants a controversial Pacific free trade pact to be completely revamped, heaping more pressure on the Najib administration ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit here in October.

The Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) handed a memorandum to Datuk Seri Najib Razak calling for limits to opening up of certain sectors and removing government procurement and state-owned enterprises from the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) now being discussed in Brunei.