Male Speaker:
My name is Viva.
I'm the general manager for
Turner-Fisher Scientific
in Malaysia.
We sell our products
to many different areas
universities, research
centers, hospitals, clinics,
you name it.
And, I mean, almost
everywhere that you need
quality control, you need
testing, you need R&D, we
are there.
Anywhere that you need
science you will see us.
Many of the CSI episodes
you'll probably see some of
our machines.
Even in the movies,
recent movies.
Jurassic Park - the lab,
yeah, many of those things
are supplied by us.
This is exact model you
see in Jurassic park.
You see all the wires.
The transferring
things, this is it.
(laughs).
These are widely
used in many areas.
You can do pesticide
analysis, you can also
do doping.
To pick up whatever the
athletes accidentally or
intentionally put
in their bodies.
So these things
can pick it up.
So if you have heard of
those doping bans, or
whatever maybe one of these
machines has worked on it.
There are many competitors,
but I think we do have an
edge in the facilities.
And a strong
background as U.S.
manufacturer, and that does
give us a competitive edge.
Now, these are classified
as plastic containers.
So it attracts duties.
So when we import this it
attracts duties from ten to
twenty to 30% duties.
But these are - in the
science world it's a
special plastic.
It's cleaner, more inert, so
you can use - you can store
chemicals, you can store
very clean solvents and
things like that.
But because it's classified
as plastic containers it
attracts duties.
Is 20% duty most of
the time, all right?
So prices become
much higher.
There's actually a freezer
- so this maybe is another
example full of
a tariff or duty.
It is just a freezer, so it
is classified as a freezer.
So it - Malaysia makes a
lot of freezers, so it's -
productions-wise it attracts
-- imported freezer, you had
to pay a tariff
or duty; it's 30%.
That freezer, the
temperature goes down to
-80 Celsius.
Everything frozen.
You don't use it at home.
You only use it in a
research in science.
But because it is classified
as freezer you still; have
to pay that 30 percent duty.
All right, so researchers
have to pay more, industries
have to pay more.
Unless they get
a tax exemption.
We always pride ourselves on
the forefront of science and
on pushing the limits of
science - pushing the limits
of discovery.
The U.S.
product and the U.S.
technology background,
definitely have that edge.
We have a lot more advantage
compared to many other
products and others areas.
