{"id":76627,"date":"2026-08-15T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=76627"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:41:43","slug":"singapore-takes-trade-compliance-seriously-will-take-firm-action-against-businesses-that-break-laws-mti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=76627","title":{"rendered":"Singapore takes trade compliance seriously, will take firm action against businesses that break laws: MTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>&#8220;FIRM AND DECISIVE ACTION&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>MTI said that Singapore does not condone businesses using their association with the country to fraudulently and dishonestly circumvent or violate the laws and regulations of other countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Singapore will also not hesitate to take firm and decisive action against any violation of our laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ministry added that companies transhipping goods through Singapore must fully comply with its laws and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>It said that in June 2025, Singapore Customs issued a circular to traders and declaring agents reiterating the importance of accurate &#8220;country\/region of origin&#8221; declarations in Singapore&#8217;s permit applications.<\/p>\n<p><span>On Friday, the agency also charged a Singapore-registered company and three individuals for their alleged involvement in a scheme to falsely declare the origin of bedding products and other goods exported from Singapore to the US, in an apparent attempt to <\/span>circumvent import duties <span>imposed by the US.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Transshipment risk is &#8220;embedded within broad legitimate trade flows&#8221; for some economies, according to the White House report.<\/p>\n<p>Others were found to be more integrated with China-linked supply chains, while a third group had advantages such as preferential US access that make them &#8220;attractive opportunistic targets&#8221; for rerouting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singapore was placed under the third group of trading partners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/circumvent-us-tariffs-china-singapore-6320951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;FIRM AND DECISIVE ACTION&#8221; MTI said that Singapore does not condone businesses using their association with the country to fraudulently and dishonestly circumvent or violate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--gpj2qNpj--\/c_crop,h_576,w_1024,x_0,y_22\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2023-11:afp_watermark_14112023,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/15\/us_tariffs_china.jpg?itok=9rS--CGP","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[389,7694,6385,28279,1608,125,14914,22,1013,7082],"class_list":["post-76627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-action","tag-break","tag-businesses","tag-compliance","tag-firm","tag-laws","tag-mti","tag-singapore","tag-takes","tag-trade","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}