00:00What was your meeting with Jameson Greer just now?
00:02Yes, we had a good bilateral meeting with the U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Jameson Greer.
00:08He had met with the Prime Minister earlier.
00:11And of course, yesterday, we also had a good session between EU and U.S.
00:16And we also had another session, bilateral session between Malaysia and U.S.
00:22We discussed about preparation on economic deliverables during President Trump's visit.
00:29In the end of October, so we discussed about the agreement that we have striked recently.
00:37We want to finalize that in writing.
00:39So that is being worked on.
00:41I think the Prime Minister was also brief about it by Jameson Greer.
00:45So Ambassador Jameson Greer also talked about how we need to try and conclude the agreement
00:51by the time of the visit of President Trump.
00:56And we also talked about improving trade and investment within the two countries
01:01because the U.S. continues to be a major investor.
01:03In fact, the largest investor through Malaysia.
01:06And in fact, yesterday, we also discussed about ASEAN and U.S.
01:08And U.S. is also the largest investor into ASEAN.
01:11So we heard about some of the concerns that we had.
01:19We talked about the importance of trade within Malaysia and U.S.,
01:23especially in the few sectors, the key sectors, one of them being semiconductor.
01:27So it was good in terms of, you know, it enabled us to talk about issues that we feel very strongly about
01:39and especially when U.S. is still our largest export market as well for Malaysia.
01:45Mr. Is there any room left to be able to travel the tariff rates in Malaysia?
01:49Mr. We didn't discuss that.
01:53Of course, it's up to the U.S. administration.
01:56But for now, we want to finalise what we have agreed.
02:00The details of that will be in the agreement.
02:03We've announced what we have agreed at a very high level.
02:09So now, once the agreement is out, then we have to go line by line on what we agreed during the announcement that we made
02:17and also what we want to agree going forward.
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