After the Office of the United States Trade Representative, a US trade agency, investigated 60 economies, Singapore was found to be one of 54 economies that have failed to impose and enforce a prohibition on imported goods made with forced labour.
As a result, the US proposed an additional 12.5 per cent tariff on economies that have failed in these categories.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry has rejected this claim and stated that there is no evidence of the Republic’s involvement in the supply chains of goods associated with forced labour to the US, and that it is not aware of any goods produced with forced labour that have been exported.
