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Singapore, Australia sign protocol for trade of essential supplies
The pact adds export restrictions limits and a defense resiliency deal to their free trade agreement, covering diesel, liquefied natural gas and military supplies.
- On Monday, July 27, Singapore and Australia signed a legally-binding protocol in Adelaide to ensure unrestricted flow of essential goods, including diesel and liquefied natural gas.
- The protocol strengthens supply chain resilience, addressing mutual dependency where Australia supplies liquefied natural gas to Singapore, while Singapore refines petroleum ores for Australian industries.
- Singapore permanent secretary of defence development Melvyn Ong and Australia's national armaments director Nadine Williams signed a separate industrial base resiliency arrangement to streamline equipment transfers and foster defence partnerships.
- Under the protocol, both nations commit to avoid export restrictions on essential items while establishing a mechanism to expand the list of covered goods during future crises.
- The 15th Singapore-Australia Joint Ministerial Committee meeting, marking the 30th anniversary of the dialogue, also solidified agreements to deepen cooperation in emerging areas like artificial intelligence.
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Singapore, Australia sign protocol for trade of essential supplies
Under the agreement, both countries "commit to endeavour not to adopt or maintain export restrictions on agreed essential items", including petroleum oils such as diesel and liquefied natural gas.
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Singapore, Australia inks economic resilience and essential supplies agreement
Slightly over three months after Singapore and Australia concluded negotiations on a legally-binding protocol on economic resilience and essential supplies, the two countries announced on Monday (July 27) that they have signed the related agreement.Dubbed the Protocol to the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement on Economic Resilience and Essential Supplies, the agreement, inked at the 15th Singapore-Australia Joint Ministerial Committee meeting...
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