Myanmar’s trade union and labor organizations disagreed with Brussels’ consideration to withdraw trade preferences during the meeting with visiting EU officials

Myanmar’s trade union and labor organizations voiced strong disagreement with Brussels’ move to consider withdrawing trade preferences at a meeting with EU officials on Monday.

Representatives of the Myanmar Confederation of Trade Unions and the Myanmar Infrastructure, Craft and Service (MICS) organization met with members of an EU delegation looking into the human rights situation in the country at the bloc’s Myanmar office in Yangon.

“We told them we don’t agree with the EU’s [possible] withdrawal of trade preferences,” U Maung Maung, president of the Myanmar Confederation of Trade Unions, said after the meeting.

During the meeting, U Maung Maung stressed that Myanmar’s reforms are making progress, saying, “Myanmar needs the EU’s support for further reforms in the country.”

​