President Marcos will call for a unified regional response to the new tariff schedule recently imposed by the United States, as he left for Malaysia on Sunday, May 25, for the 46th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. (Video courtesy of RTVM)
00:00I will add to that the list of issues, the discussions which we will continue as we have already had preliminary discussions with the chair of ASEAN, Malaysia, specifically PM Manoir,
00:18on the proper response of ASEAN as a group towards the new tariff schedule that is being imposed by the United States.
00:31And as I said, we have already made informal consultations with our fellow member states and their representatives with the chairman, PM Manoir, on this subject as it is something that we have to discuss and it's something that we have to respond to.
00:58And considering the many different situations that the member states of ASEAN have concerning trade and specifically the tariff schedule imposed by the United States,
01:14we must find a way to find consensus amongst the disparate situations that the different member states are operating under.
