The TPP is alive


Raring to go: Jayasiri (standing second from right) and his team of negotiators taking a break at a dinner, hosted by the Malaysian embassy at the end of Apec Summit in Vietnam, with Najib and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

And it’s a new deal – one that Malaysia wants to iron out on its own terms. 

WHEN an official announcement was made that the remaining 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries agreed to push ahead with the free trade agreement without the United States, Malaysia’s chief negotiator Datuk Seri J. Jayasiri tweeted: “The TPP is alive.”

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