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Secretary Raimondo and Minister Gan issued the following statement:
“We reaffirm our commitment to collaborate through the Partnership for Growth and Innovation. We celebrated our early progress, including joint activities organized at the Singapore International Cyber Week, Singapore International Energy Week, and the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology.”
“We have established a framework for periodic PGI meetings that will convene government and industry leaders to inform our approach and drive commercially meaningful outcomes for the businesses and citizens of the United States and Singapore. We are also finalizing a work plan of joint U.S.-Singapore activities under the PGI’s four pillars: digital economy, clean energy and environmental technology, advanced manufacturing, and healthcare. PGI activities will address shared policy priorities, such as standards and supply chain resilience, and leverage regional networks such as the Southeast Asia Manufacturing Alliance.”
“For example, under the digital economy pillar, we can help our small businesses access new markets and digital solutions by collaborating on common technical standards and interoperable systems, such as e-invoicing, e-payments, and mechanisms that build interoperability between different data protection and privacy regimes and facilitate cross border data flows such as the APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System. We can also exchange expertise on operationalizing principles for trustworthy and responsible AI with the aim of building interoperability of AI governance frameworks, as more U.S. and Singapore companies become active in this emerging space. Under the clean energy and environmental technology pillar, we can create a regional roundtable for businesses to network across the region, and explore room for collaboration in areas such as clean energy deployment, carbon capture, and utilization.”
“We also agreed to explore opportunities for joint PGI programming in 2022 at relevant events, such as the Singapore-hosted World Cities Summit, Singapore International Energy Week, and the SelectUSA Investment Summit. This programming would convene government officials, subject matter experts, U.S. and Singapore business leaders, and regional stakeholders to strengthen trade and investment ties through networking and commercial policy discussions.”
“On trade standards, our teams discussed plans to support a U.S.-ASEAN Business Council-hosted regional digital trade standards workshop in December. They also agreed to conduct government and industry outreach on the findings of a U.S. Department of Commerce-funded 3D printing standards report released in October 2021 to help drive commercialization of cutting-edge technologies.”
“We look forward to reporting additional activities and initiatives as the Partnership continues to develop.”
Secretary Raimondo and Minister Gan co-chaired a PGI industry roundtable with U.S. and Singapore business leaders, co-organised by the American Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore Business Federation. The roundtable promoted commercial partnerships and exchanges, and collected ideas for the work plan of joint U.S.-Singapore activities under the PGI.
During the meeting, they discussed the need for a continued focus on economic resilience, competitiveness, inclusion and sustainability to support prosperity in the region for all our people and businesses. In addition, they agreed to continue to strengthen efforts to help address shared priorities for countries in the Indo-Pacific region, including enhancing supply chain resilience, promoting infrastructure investment, growing the digital and green economies, towards broadly shared economic prosperity for the region.
November 16
Secretary Raimondo meeting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana.
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo met with the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong. During their meeting, Secretary Raimondo and Prime Minister Lee discussed areas of cooperation under the U.S.-Singapore Partnership for Growth and Innovation (PGI) that Vice President Harris announced in Singapore during her August visit to Singapore, and that Secretary Raimondo and Minister Gan Kim Yong launched in October. The Secretary discussed the commitment to work with Singapore to produce meaningful outcomes for the people and businesses of the United States and Singapore.
Additionally, the Secretary discussed building on the U.S. and Singapore’s strong bilateral collaboration through President Biden’s proposed Indo-Pacific economic framework to advance resilience, inclusion, sustainability, and the interests of our middle classes. She invited Singapore to pursue shared goals with the United States in areas such as infrastructure, the digital economy, supply chain resiliency, and more.
Secretary Raimondo meeting with Minister for Communications and Information of Singapore, Josephine Teo
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo met with Singapore Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo for a bilateral meeting and to co-host an event promoting women’s leadership in the technology sector.
During their meeting, Secretary Raimondo and Minister Teo discussed U.S. and Singapore collaboration on the digital economy, AI, and other related priorities in the U.S.-Singapore Partnership for Growth and Innovation. The Secretary and Minister Teo also discussed opportunities to deepen collaboration on advanced telecom and wireless technology and on cross-border data flows. The Secretary highlighted the Biden Administration’s broader objective of working with like-minded partners across the Indo-Pacific on an economic framework to advance resilience, inclusion, sustainability, and the interests of our middle classes.
Additionally, the Secretary and Minister co-hosted a discussion alongside women founders of tech startups and venture capitalists. During the event, the Secretary underscored the Department of Commerce’s commitment to helping businesses and entrepreneurs build back better and more equitably around the world.
Secretary Raimondo meeting with Minister of Trade and Industry of Singapore, Gan Kim Yong
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo met with Singapore Minister of Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong to discuss progress on the U.S.-Singapore Partnership for Growth and Innovation (PGI) and to outline next steps to produce concrete and commercially meaningful outcomes under the PGI, including the digital economy, supply chain resiliency for semiconductors, and other areas of collaboration.
Additionally, Secretary Raimondo discussed building on the U.S. and Singapore’s strong bilateral collaboration through President Biden’s proposed Indo-Pacific economic framework to advance resilience, inclusion, sustainability, and the interests of our middle classes and small businesses. She invited the Minister to collaborate further with the Department of Commerce on shared goals with the United States in areas such as infrastructure, export controls, the digital economy, and supply chain resilience.
Secretary Raimondo shared about the mentorship program which was launched during the 2021 SelectUSA Investment Summit, pairing women tech entrepreneurs with experienced female founders in the United States. SelectUSA provides services to foreign based companies and startups to facilitate inward investments and expansion into the United States. The recorded livestream can be found here: https://fb.watch/9jeIXlkH0j/.
