In Malaysia's trainer and LCA tender, it was claimed that had Hürjet won it some of the program costs would be paid by barter through giving palm oil to Turkey worth few hundred millions. Unsure if Koreans that won it were given the same deal. Main issue here is our inability of offering financing deals we can offer for our exports actually, not Malaysians exploring the option to pay with bartering other commodities which in itself is fine.
We have been doing the same thing giving palm oil and hard cash for big ticket items.
So whats the problem...Still many countries offer it to sell to Malaysia.
You can just sell it to your country.
We sell a lot of palm oil to Turkey.
If you don't then sell to international market.
So whats the problem...
You are talking about selling a jet which is still on drawing board to our country.
Do you think the Malaysian people will accept it...
There will be a lot of noice if we buy it while The Korean jets have been flying for years and sell to many countries already.
Furthermore,Seems so far we got no problems buying arms with our palm oil from many european,american,russia and others.
Even the FA 50 deal is bought with half paid by palm oil.
Maybe next time when Turkey decided to sell their products to Malaysia they should ask the smart guy in this forun to specified it all in hard cash.
Fortunately the Ada class bought for lms batch 2 is not bought with palm oil..paid all by hard cash