Malaysia offers preferential treatment in business, housing and education, including greater access to government contracts, to ethnic Malays and other indigenous people known as bumiputra. The TPP would seek to put foreign suppliers on an equal foot ing terms of government procurement. The country also is under pressure over human trafficking, with some US law makers pressing to prevent the TPP from benefiting from a fast track through Con gress if the country remains on the State Department's black list in a report due out yesterday