Download or read book The U S Singapore Free Trade Agreement written by Manuel F. Casanova and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 31 July 2003, the Senate and, on July 24, the House passed H.R.2739 (United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act) which is to implement the U.S. - Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The FTA would, with a phase-in period, eliminate tariffs on all goods traded between the United States and Singapore, cover trade in services, and protect intellectual property rights. The agreement has received support from the business community and consumer organisations but has been criticised by labour and some environmental interests. Some of the specific concerns raised deal with the restrictions on penalties for unresolvable disputes over labour and environmental issues, the Integrated Sourcing Initiative, potential capital controls, temporary visas, and access for U.S. exports of chewing gum. Since Singapore is a relatively small economy, the economic effects of the U.S. - Singapore Free Trade Agreement, by themselves, are not likely to be great. free trade interests who would benefit from more liberalised trade, particularly in services, and labour or anti-globalisation interests who oppose more FTA's because of the overall impact of imports on jobs and the general effects of globalisation on income distribution, certain jobs, and the environment. Specific provisions of the agreement also have generated debate. This book discusses the problems and issues that the Free Trade Agreement has brought up.
Download or read book The U S Singapore Free Trade Agreement written by Eul-Soo Pang and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free trade has become the mantra of development strategy for many countries in the world, especially those in the Asia Pacific. This book delves into the American side of the story. It is about how Singapore and the United States came to sign the agreement in 2003 (taking effect from 1 January 2004). The United States - Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) is the first FTA that America signed with an Asian country and the second such agreement with a fully developed country, after Canada. The city-state has used a free trade agreement as both a national survival and a growth strategy, first forging such FTA ties with its major trading partners and then expanding its strategic link to such extra-regional great powers as the United States, Japan, Australia, China, India, and the European Union. Both Singapore and the United States saw in FTAs something more than just merchandise trade.
Download or read book United States Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Singapore Free Trade Agreement written by Tommy Koh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' On 1 January 2004, the US–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a two-year negotiation process which started towards the end of the Clinton Administration and concluded under the Bush Administration. How did the negotiation process straddle the two administrations? What is the rationale for the FTA? What were the unique features of the negotiating process? Was negotiating with the US different from negotiating with other countries? How will the FTA benefit the two countries? What is the impact on ASEAN, APEC and the WTO? This book captures some of the personal insights thrown up in the negotiations and offers highlights and analysis of the USSFTA. Contributors to the volume include the Chief Negotiators of the two delegations, the US and Singapore Ambassadors, key negotiators and close observers of the process. Selected key documents pertaining to the USSFTA process have also been included. This book is a comprehensive reader on the story behind the negotiations of the USSFTA. Contents:Introduction:The USSFTA: A Personal Perspective (T T B Koh)Lessons from the USSFTA Negotiations (Y K Ong)The A to Z of the USSFTA (W Choong)Selected Chapters of the Agreement:The Goods Package (R Ithnain)Textiles and Apparel (K N Ng)Intellectual Property Rights (W Y Liew)Labour (Y H Ong)Getting the FTA through Congress:Lobbying for the USSFTA (H C Chan)What I Learnt from the US Business Community (G H Neo)Implementing the FTA:The Impact of the USSFTA on Our Laws, Regulations and Procedures — The Process and the Substance (D Tang)The USSFTA: The Impact on Government-Linked Companies and Singapore's Corporate Scene (V Khanna)and other papers Readership: Professionals, academics, business people and general readers interested in current affairs. Keywords:USSFTA;Free Trade Agreement;Singapore;United States;Bilateral Trade Agreement;USâSingapore Business CoalitionReviews:“Ambassador Koh is a master of the art of explaining in clear and simple terms how an international agreement was struck … Professors Koh's usual readers and others, be they lawyers, economists, trade experts, foreign service officers, or simply the typically well-informed person interested in Singapore's regional trade agreements or what the USSFTA is about would want to have a copy of this book.”The Singapore Year Book of International Law '
Download or read book The United States Singapore Free Trade Agreement written by United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singapore and Free Trade Agreements written by Ramkishen S. Rajan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of its trade policy, Singapore has embarked on what can be broadly termed "new regionalism". Beyond examining the motivations behind these trade moves, the authors also analyse the trade and investment linkages between Singapore and Japan and the United States in some detail.
Download or read book U S Singapore Free Trade Agreement Potential Economywide and Selected Sectoral Effects Inv TA2104 6 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The US Singapore FTA written by Chang Li Lin and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 1 January 2004, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a two-year negotiation process which started towards the end of the Clinton Administration and concluded under the Bush Administration. How did the negotiation process straddle the two administrations? What is the rationale for the FTA? What were the unique features of the negotiating process? Was negotiating with the US different from negotiating with other countries? How will the FTA benefit the two countries? What is the impact on ASEAN, APEC and the WTO?This book captures some of the personal insights thrown up in the negotiations and offers highlights and analysis of the USSFTA. Contributors to the volume include the Chief Negotiators of the two delegations, the US and Singapore Ambassadors, key negotiators and close observers of the process. Selected key documents pertaining to the USSFTA process have also been included. This book is a comprehensive reader on the story behind the negotiations of the USSFTA.
Download or read book Implementation of U S Bilateral Free Trade Agreement with Singapore and Chile written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Singapore Free Trade Agreement After Five Years written by Robert E. Flemchak and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S.-Singapore FTA has taken on new importance in trade policy because the United States is engaged in negotiations to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). In addition, the U.S.-Singapore FTA has provided greater access for U.S. companies, has been instrumental in increasing bilateral trade, and has provided reassurance to Singaporeans of U.S. interest in the country. As a city-state, Singapore operates as an entrepot with essentially free trade. Under the FTA, concessions dealt mainly with providing greater access for American service providers and with strengthening the business environment in areas such as the protection of intellectual property rights and access to government procurement. This book examines the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement in detail, as well as the documented effects after five years.
Download or read book Notification to enter into a free trade agreement with the government of Singapore written by United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notification of the Required Changes to the United States Singapore Free Trade Agreement written by United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementation of U S Bilateral Free Trade Agreements with Chile and Singapore written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward a US Indonesia Free Trade Agreement written by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world. Would a free trade agreement (FTA) with the country be beneficial both economically and politically to the United States? What kind of benefit could Indonesia expect? This book presents a case for improved trade relations between Indonesia and the United States and recommends advancing exploratory talks toward a US-Indonesia FTA. The authors present a detailed study of the stakes involved in the various areas of the proposed negotiation and estimate the FTA's potential for trade creation, trade diversion, and welfare under different scenarios.
Download or read book Free Trade Agreements written by Jeffrey J. Schott and published by Peterson Institute for International Economics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this conference volume, distinguished economists and trade policymakers address the US initiatives to enter into free trade negotiations with a broad range of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the Western Hemisphere, and Africa. The sheer number of these initiatives is unprecedented and has provoked major policy questions concerning US interests in the negotiations, the setting of priorities among the many contenders for concluding free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States, the objectives of those trading partners, and the implications that these agreements could have for broader initiatives such as the Doha Round in the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The papers in the volume were presented during a conference on FTAs and US trade policy, sponsored by the Institute in May 2003. The editor, Jeffrey Schott, summarizes the policy implications drawn from the conference papers and discussions, which are organized around several topics: the conceptual case for FTAs and how they have worked in the past; what FTAs imply for the broader global system; the specific agreements that are already being pursued (Australia, Central America, Morocco, southern Africa) or considered (ASEAN, Brazil, Egypt, Korea, and Taiwan). The volume includes a technical appendix with results of GTAP and gravity model simulations of the trade and welfare effects of the prospective agreements.
Download or read book Modifications to the Harmonized tariff schedule of the United States to implement the United States Singapore Free Trade Agreement written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed United States Chile and United States Singapore Free Trade Agreements written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
