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Viewing cable 08SINGAPORE1036, SINGAPORE CONCLUDES COMPREHENSIVE FTA WITH CHINA

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08SINGAPORE1036 2008-09-23 07:49 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Singapore
VZCZCXRO9095
RR RUEHCHI RUEHCN RUEHDT RUEHGH RUEHHM RUEHNH RUEHVC
DE RUEHGP #1036 2670749
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 230749Z SEP 08
FM AMEMBASSY SINGAPORE
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5809
INFO RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
RUEHOO/CHINA POSTS COLLECTIVE
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 4239
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 5935
RUEHWL/AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON 1456
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 2172
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 2098
UNCLAS SINGAPORE 001036 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETRD ECON ASEAN SN
 
SUBJECT:  SINGAPORE CONCLUDES COMPREHENSIVE FTA WITH CHINA 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary:  On September 4, China and Singapore announced 
they had concluded a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA), billed as 
China's first comprehensive bilateral FTA with another Asian 
country.  Although the text of the agreement has not yet been 
released pending a planned signing in late October, the agreement 
reportedly goes beyond trade in goods and includes commitments in 
services and investment, among other areas.  The political symbolism 
of the agreement is at least as important for the two sides as the 
increased flows of trade and investment that may result.  Both sides 
are keen to demonstrate their mutual friendship and commitment to 
economic links.  The FTA may also give a spur to the rest of ASEAN 
to move ahead with economic commitments.  End Summary. 
 
2.  (SBU) On September 4, Singapore and China completed the eighth 
and final round of FTA negotiations on the margins of a meeting of 
the Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation.  In contrast to several 
other FTAs that China has pursued in the region and with ASEAN that 
cover only trade in goods, the Singapore FTA is comprehensive, 
covering goods, services, investment, movement of persons, technical 
barriers to trade, sanitary/phytosanitary measures, trade remedies 
and economic cooperation, according to press reports.  The two sides 
plan to sign the agreement in Beijing when Singapore PM Lee visits 
for a scheduled Asia-Europe Summit meeting on October 24-25. 
 
3.  (SBU) The Singapore-China FTA is seen as another symbol of 
improved ties between the two trading partners.  Relations hit a 
rocky patch in 2004 when then-Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong 
paid a private visit to Taiwan just before assuming his role as 
Prime Minister.  Gradually warming ties allowed the talks to launch 
in August 2006, but negotiations were not expected to finish until 
after fuller implementation of previous agreements with ASEAN on 
trade in goods and services and completion of an investment 
agreement.  Dr. Chen Gang, a Chinese research fellow at the East 
Asian Institute (EAI), told us China may have moved faster than 
expected to complete the FTA as a "reward" for Singapore's capacity 
building efforts with China, including on environmental issues in 
the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.  Mr. Teng Siow Song, another EAI 
researcher, credited the afterglow of the successful Beijing 
Olympics as a factor in concluding the negotiations.  China is 
increasingly more optimistic about its relationships in the region, 
Teng said, and Singapore took advantage of the timing to conclude 
the agreement. 
 
What's in it for China and Singapore? 
------------------------------------- 
 
4.  (SBU) Given Singapore's already wide open markets for trade in 
goods and services, analysts say China's interest in pursuing an FTA 
with Singapore has obvious political and strategic implications on 
top of any economic interest.  Mr. Minn Naing Oo, Director of the 
Ministry of Trade and Industry's (MTI) office for FTA Negotiations, 
was unable to discuss the still unsigned FTA in detail but told 
Econoff that China was able to obtain certain economic benefits from 
the agreement.  However, in addition to trade gains, Minn said that 
China was eager to demonstrate to the region its openness to trade 
liberalization by negotiating trade agreements and that, as a top 
regional trading partner, Singapore was a natural choice for a 
bilateral FTA.  Singapore's absence of an agricultural sector made 
the negotiations that much less complicated. 
 
5.  (SBU) For its part, Singapore is continuing its policy of 
pursuing FTAs with all of its major trading partners.  As MTI's 
Alpana Roy told us September 16, Singapore pursues FTAs as much for 
political and strategic reasons as for their trade benefits. In 2007 
China was Singapore's third largest trading partner, taking in over 
USD 11 billion in non-oil exports from Singapore.  Singaporean 
direct investment in 2006 surpassed USD 20 billion.  MTI's Minn said 
the Ministry had not made any predictions on increases in flows in 
trade and investment resulting from the agreement. 
 
6.  (SBU) The Singapore-China FTA builds on previously signed 
ASEAN-wide agreements with China on trade in goods and services and 
another on investment expected to be completed by December.  MTI's 
Minn said that Singapore had insisted that the bilateral FTA go 
significantly beyond the ASEAN FTA and was able to obtain further 
commitments from the Chinese.  EAI's Teng speculated that the 
bilateral FTA may spark a nervous reaction from other ASEAN 
economies and encourage them to step up domestic reforms and move 
more quickly to the ASEAN target of integrating their economies by 
2015. 
HERBOLD