“We urge the US administration to recognise our shared commitment to fair, market-oriented trade and to avoid measures that would disrupt the deeply intertwined supply chains,” Kok Ping Soon, the chief executive officer of the federation, said in a statement on Thursday.
(April 16): Singapore’s business lobby has joined the government in pushing back against a sweeping US trade probe that alleges manufacturing overcapacity and failures to enforce bans on imports linked to forced labour.
A day after the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) defended its trade regime as being aligned with international standards, the Singapore Business Federation said it has filed a formal response of its own.

