U.S.-Singapore economic ties run deep, with a foundation in the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA)—the first U.S. FTA in Asia. Since the FTA came into effect in 2004, trade between the two countries has almost doubled. Over the last fifty-five years, the U.S.-Singapore economic partnership has flourished. The U.S. is the largest single foreign investor in Singapore, and Singapore, despite its small size, is the second largest Asian investor in the US. Additionally, Singapore is only one of two countries for which its citizens benefit from a special free trade agreement work visa for professionals, a way to expand already strong economic and people-to-people ties.
How can the U.S. and Singapore continue working together to mitigate the risks and seize the opportunities that major disruptors to the global economy such as populism, protectionism, automation, digitization, and climate change present? Join our panel of speakers as they discuss the roles the U.S. and Singapore can play in promoting economic growth and prosperity in both countries and the wider Indo-Pacific region.
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