FTAs vital for Singapore’s business community, says NMP

07/06/2021

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Sue-Ann Tan | The Straits Times

Free trade agreements (FTAs) are important in helping businesses lower their costs and explore new markets and models, a need that has been made even more urgent by the Covid-19 pandemic, said Nominated MP Janet Ang on Tuesday (July 6).

She was responding in Parliament to two ministerial statements on FTAs and foreign manpower.

Ms Ang, who is also a council member of the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), said: “Trade along with investments into Singapore will drive our economic recovery and the resumption of business activities post-Covid-19 even as we restlessly reinvent our industries, innovate ideas, products, services and business models, to emerge stronger post-pandemic.”

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