SURVEY ON TRADE RESTRICTIVE MEASURES WITHIN APEC – IMPACTS ON BUSINESS

The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) has institutionalised the practice of providing timely and effective inputs to governments on the impacts of trade restrictive measures in the region, through the process of gathering feedback from regional business and channeling the sentiments of the business community at the respective APEC fora.

Following the “Survey on Trade Restrictive Measures within APEC” carried out in the First Quarter of 2010 ABAC is conducting a second round of the survey for this year. 

ASME is partnering the Singapore Business Federation and the ABAC Singapore Secretariat to seek comments from the Singapore business community on their experience with trade restrictive measures within the APEC economies#.

Companies may refer to the “WTO’s Report to the Trade Policy Review Body” (please see attached WTO document) for recent updates on the general global trade environment for the period November 2009 to May 2010.  Of particular interest to companies would be the list of Trade and Trade-related measures in Annex I of the report on pages 55-85.

We would like to invite companies to report on the impacts of the measures that are described in the WTO report or in any other source documents of which you are aware of.  Kindly respond to us by providing your comments in the template below. 

We would appreciate if you could send us your comments by 6 August 2010, to the email address: abacsg@sbf.org.sg.

Please feel free to email abacsg@sbf.org.sg or call 6827 6869 if your have further queries.

# The 21 APEC economies are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, United States and Vietnam.