Singapore Rejects US Claims in Manufacturing, Forced Labor Probe

Singapore’s business lobby has joined the government in pushing back against a sweeping US trade probe that alleges manufacturing overcapacity and failures to enforce bans on imports linked to forced labor.

A day after the Ministry of Trade and Industry defended its trade regime as being aligned with international standards, the Singapore Business Federation said it has filed a formal response of its own.

“We urge the US Administration to recognize our shared commitment to fair, market-oriented trade and to avoid measures that would disrupt the deeply intertwined supply chains,” Kok Ping Soon, chief executive of the federation, said ...