Malaysia is expected to send its officials to the United States to discuss the tariff issue by the end of April, says Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Asean Investment Conference in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (April 8), the Finance Minister II stressed that there's no need to panic, adding that Malaysia should continue to explore and diversify trade.
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Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Asean Investment Conference in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (April 8), the Finance Minister II stressed that there's no need to panic, adding that Malaysia should continue to explore and diversify trade.
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00:00the launch of the ASEAN Investment Challenge 2025. On my count, gentlemen.
01:00Are you still in Penang today? No, we're chilled.
01:11Are you confident today? When are you likely that...
01:14It's likely that we'll be there in the end of April. But the key is actually to work through
01:20and understand how do you want to position the story of Malaysia. At the same time, there
01:26are a lot of no-regret moves that we should be doing. We should continue to explore and
01:30diversify our trade. That's why under this ASEAN framework, we need to work much stronger
01:35within ASEAN. Not only to coordinate the efforts that we need to do, but also to enable much
01:40stronger ASEAN trade. To look at partners that have been with us for a while, like EU
01:46and new partners such as Latin America, South America and so on, and see what else we can
01:50do with that. So sometimes you need a trigger, and I think this is a trigger for all of us
01:55to do that.
01:56To get a unified or a consensus among ASEAN member countries before you negotiate, isn't
02:02it going to be very difficult?
02:04I think it's important to recognise that ASEAN has differential in terms of level of development
02:10for each ASEAN country, and also have had different level of tariffs that have been
02:15applied. But the common thing that holds and binds us together is fundamentally an acceptance
02:21that free trade is a common goal that we all want to push. We all want to push for
02:26fair trade treatment along the way. So I think all of us will also hold to those principles.
02:32The unique country differential will be things that each will discuss, but we won't deviate
02:38from the fact that holding to open free trade mechanisms are important for us to talk about.
02:51Transcription by CastingWords