The general discussion raised two questions. First, Vu Quoc Huy sought an explanation on the ownership of the countries producing solar panels in Malaysia. Ownership is largely multinational corporations (MNCs), although domestic firms are also involved on a smaller scale. The MNCs included corporations from the United States, Korea, and China, although they are not drawn largely from China.
Second, Prema-chandra Athukorala asked the authors to explain the difference between domestic exports and re-exports as he was unclear what the latter meant. He asked whether data on domestic re-exports used in the paper referred to entrepot trade figures. The authors explained that these data are relatively new and were not obtained from published sources. They, too, were unclear about this and promised to clarify it in the revised version of their paper.