TWN Info Service on Free Trade Agreements

30 March 2006
 

MALAYSIAN NGOs LAUNCH FTA CAMPAIGN WEBSITE

On March 8, Malaysia and US officially launched a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) and negotiations on the agreement will be intense in the months ahead as the US is pressing to complete the pact by the end of the year, to take advantage of the US President’s ‘fast track authority’ that ends in mid-2007.

Given the lack of information and public consultation in the on-going talks and the strong likelihood of an imbalanced outcome in the US-Malaysia FTA negotiations, a coalition of Malaysian NGOs held a forum on 25 March to launch a campaign calling upon the government to put on hold the negotiations until a comprehensive Cost-Benefit assessment is done.

For more information about this initiative, please refer to a new website – www.ftamalaysia.org – which has been set up to help disseminate information and raise public awareness on the Malaysia-US FTA, as well as other FTAs with which Malaysia is involved.


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