QUOTE(touristking @ Dec 13 2025, 09:07 PM)
From USA-Malaysia agreement. Does this means Malaysia give up her soverign rights to trade with anyone they wanted?
Article 3.3: Digital Trade Agreements
Malaysia shall consult with the United States before entering into a new digital trade agreement with another country that jeopardizes essential U.S. interests.
3. If Malaysia enters into a new bilateral free trade agreement or preferential economic agreement with a country that jeopardizes essential U.S. interests, the United States may, if consultations with Malaysia fail to resolve its concerns, terminate this Agreement and reimpose the applicable reciprocal tariff rate set forth in Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statem...ciprocal-trade/
TS, a simple google search will tell you what is a digital trade agreement is.Article 3.3: Digital Trade Agreements
Malaysia shall consult with the United States before entering into a new digital trade agreement with another country that jeopardizes essential U.S. interests.
3. If Malaysia enters into a new bilateral free trade agreement or preferential economic agreement with a country that jeopardizes essential U.S. interests, the United States may, if consultations with Malaysia fail to resolve its concerns, terminate this Agreement and reimpose the applicable reciprocal tariff rate set forth in Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statem...ciprocal-trade/
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A Digital Trade Agreement (DTA) is a pact between countries to set rules for the digital economy, making online transactions, data flows, and e-commerce smoother, safer, and more open by banning customs duties on digital products, promoting e-signatures/contracts, ensuring consumer protection (anti-spam), protecting data privacy, and preventing forced source code disclosure, with examples like the EU-Singapore DTA and the ASEAN DEFA creating frameworks for modern digital commerce.
so a bilateral trade is a broad traditional trade agreement so unrelated to the new digital trade agreement clause.
Dec 14 2025, 11:28 PM

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