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Singapore’s foreign minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, spoke at the Aspen Security Forum where he participated in a “Fireside ...
The World Trade Organisation suffered a setback at its General Council meeting in Geneva on Wednesday after a small group of ...
SINGAPORE’S Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said the best framework for the global economy at present is “the world, temporarily minus one,” referring to th ...
Wong recapped Singapore’s pledge to maintain solid and durable ties with all major powers, including the U.S., EU, India, and Japan. This calculated balancing act, predictors infer, allows Singapore ...
The former PM added that a system where COEs are offered at a lower cost to certain groups is not feasible in Singapore. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
AS THE US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) marks its 20th year, the United States’ imposition of a 10 per cent baseline tariff on Singapore casts a long shadow over two decades of strong ...
Much like the WTO ushered in an era of global trade co-operation ... embodied not only in the state of Singapore, but also in his own family. His late father, Ying Yok Hang, played a pivotal role in ...
With the slow development of multilateral trade rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO), governments have turned to free trade agreements (FTAs). As of 2023, almost 600 bilateral and regional ...
As the GATT and WTO members understood that a snowballing use of Article XXI would endanger the world trading system, for 70 years they exercised self-restraint. The United States only invoked Article ...
President Donald Trump’s global trade war will hurt economies around the world this year, including the US, according to a new report by the World Trade Organization.