KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's quantitative restrictions on vehicle imports are allowed under world trade rules, Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz said Tuesday as she urged Thailand not to create new barriers to trade amid a dispute over auto tariffs.
Thailand has insisted that Malaysia's policy of giving permits for select few ethnic Malay-owned businesses to import foreign vehicles violates Asean's free trade pact rules and that it will not reciprocate Malaysia's decision to lower tariffs on Thai-made vehicles.
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