Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim confirmed a new E-Commerce Bill will be tabled at the next parliamentary sitting to strengthen accountability among online platforms and sellers, with the government urgently reviewing legislative and enforcement measures to protect MSMEs from unfair competition. This matters because the trigger is named directly: foreign e-commerce companies entering the domestic market without adequate oversight, raising both a competitive-fairness concern for local sellers and a consumer-safety concern over whether goods sold on these platforms meet local standards. Local online sellers, MSMEs and foreign e-commerce platforms operating in Malaysia may be affected, with the Bill’s specific provisions still pending the next sitting.

 

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