Questions remain over CPTPP


IT has been three months since Malaysia ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), but it looks far from being a done deal.

Civil society groups and other stakeholders remain unconvinced that the anticipated benefits of inclusion into the 11-member trade bloc would outweigh the cost of being left out.

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