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The United States Singapore free trade agreement : highlights and insights / edited by Tommy Koh, Chang Li Lin.

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The United States Singapore free trade agreement : highlights and insights / edited by Tommy Koh, Chang Li Lin.
Publication
Singapore : World Scientific ; Institute of Policy Studies ; Singapore Business Federation, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Koh, Tommy T. B. (Tommy Thong Bee), 1937-
  • Chang, Li Lin
  • Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore)
  • Singapore Business Federation
Description
xix, 293 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
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 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.
Subject
  • Free trade > Singapore
  • Free trade > United States
  • United States > Commercial treaties
  • United States > Foreign economic relations > Singapore
  • Singapore > Foreign economic relations > United States
  • Singapore > Commercial treaties
Note
  • Compiled by Institute of Policy Studies and Singapore Business Federation.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The USSFTA: a personal perspective / Tommy T.B. Koh -- The USSFTA: personal perspectives on the process and results / Ralph F. Ives -- Lessons from the USSFTA Negotiations / Ong Ye Kung -- The USSFTA: socio-political context / Franklin L. Lavin -- The A to Z of the USSFTA / William Choong -- Selected chapters of the agreement -- The goods package / Rossman Ithnain -- Customs administration / Lim Teck Leong -- Textiles and apparel / Ng Kim Neo -- Telecommunication and electronic commerce / Valerie D'Costa -- Financial services and capital controls / Ravi Menon -- Competition policy / Minn Maing Oo -- Intellectual property rights / Liew Woon Yin -- Labour / Ong Yen Her -- Environment / Loh Ah Tuan, Khoo Seow Poh, Chua Yew Peng and Fion Tan -- The role of legal counsel and dispute settlement / Sivakant Tiwari -- Getting the FTA through Congress -- Lobbying for the USSFTA / Chan Heng Chee -- What I learnt from the U.S. Business Community / Neo Gim Huay -- Lobbying the American Business Community in Singapore / Jennifer Conley -- Implementing the FTA -- The impact of the USSFTA on our laws, regulations and procedures -- the process and the substance / Daren Tang -- The USSFTA: the impact on government-linked companies and Singapore's corporate scene / Vikram Khanna.
ISBN
9812388486
LCCN
^^2004348765
OCLC
  • 55501866
  • SCSB-10462708
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library