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SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong will meet US administration officials in Washington DC on Tuesday (Aug 25) to discuss trade and investment cooperation amid a <\/span>12.5 per cent tariff<\/span> imposed on a range of Singapore exports.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Gan, who is also Minister for Trade and Industry (Trade), will be in the US from Aug 24 to 25, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n The visit will begin in New York City on Monday, where he will meet business and financial industry leaders, before heading to the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n In Washington DC, Mr Gan will meet members of the US administration to reaffirm strong trade and investment ties and discuss further cooperation in trade, investment and emerging sectors of mutual interest, MTI added.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Gan last <\/span>visited the US in April<\/span>, as Singapore and the US marked six decades of diplomatic relations.<\/span><\/p>\n In July, the US imposed a 12.5 per cent tariff on a range of Singapore exports following an investigation into 60 trading partners over their alleged failure to enforce bans on imports of goods produced with forced labour.<\/span><\/p>\n The new tariffs came after the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump\u2019s earlier \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs. About one-third of Singapore\u2019s domestic exports to the US were expected to be affected. Mr Gan said earlier this month that the affected exports were worth about S$9.5 billion (US$7.5 billion) annually.<\/span><\/p>\n Goods already subject to the US’ Section 232 national security tariffs, such as steel and aluminium, were exempted.<\/p>\n “Singapore does not condone the use of forced labour and has a comprehensive enforcement framework and good track record against such illegal practices within our borders,” MTI said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cForced labour in complex and multi-tiered international supply chains is a transnational issue that requires international cooperation and is most effectively addressed at source,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Gan also said earlier this month that Singapore had told the Office of the US Trade Representative that there was \u201cno evidence that Singapore is involved in the trade of goods associated with forced labour\u201d, citing data from the US Department of Labor and US Customs and Border Protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong will meet US administration officials in Washington DC on Tuesday (Aug 25) to discuss trade and investment cooperation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--xDuB2X21--\/c_crop,h_899,w_1599,x_1,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/01\/30\/ayt_5982.jpg?itok=Yrk--CKx","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[42,4745,43,4388,22,37,4717,4389],"class_list":["post-79207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-dpm","tag-exports","tag-gan","tag-kim","tag-singapore","tag-tariff","tag-visits","tag-yong","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79207","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=79207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}US TARIFFS OVER FORCED LABOUR<\/h2>\n
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