KUALA LUIMPUR, Jan 21 — Proton Edar Dealers Association Malaysia (Peda) is confident that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) would provide a wider market access for Proton within the 12 participating countries.

Its President, Armin Baniaz Pahamin, said the Peda committee unanimously supports the TPPA provided that Proton cars can enter the member countries freely with minimal restrictions.

“Our local market will eventually benefit through more competitive pricing as a result of the economies of scale attained,” he said after chairing the year’s first Peda committee meeting here today.

Without the TPPA, he said, Proton would face stringent import restrictions on its cars.

“We believe the TPPA would liberalise these restrictions to make it as easy for us to export our cars to member countries as it is for foreign companies to enter Malaysia,” he said. — Bernama