Outcomes
The Australia-Singapore Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, announced in 2015, provided the impetus to modernise SAFTA.
The upgrade to SAFTA is our most comprehensive update to an Australian FTA to date. As a result:
- our business people will be able to work and stay more easily in Singapore;
- investors and exporters will benefit from harmonised rules and less red tape; and
- new opportunities will open up for Australia's world-class education and services sectors.
Key outcomes from the Third Review of SAFTA in 2015:
- SAFTA Third Review – outcomes at a glance [PDF]
- SAFTA Third Review – goods outcomes [PDF]
- SAFTA Third Review – services outcomes [PDF]
- SAFTA Third Review – investment outcomes [PDF]
Australia and Singapore have a substantial bilateral relationship, with additional areas of cooperation including:
- Singapore-Australia Green Economy Agreement (GEA)
- Australia-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement (DEA)
- Low Emissions Solutions Memorandum of Understanding