Trading through a pandemic: The Singaporean experience

• Main Authors: GAO, Henry, CHAINANI, Dhiraj G., CHEW, Siu Farn
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Export restrictions; Essential goods; General exception; Stockpiling; Movement of people; COVID-19; Pandemic; GATT; GATS; WTO; Asian Studies; Commercial Law; Public Health; Public Law and Legal Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3229; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5179/viewcontent/Trading_through_a_pandemic.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Being a small country with one of the highest trade-to-GDP ratios in the world, Singapore faced seemingly insurmountable challenges at the onset of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As countries around the world scrambled to fight the pandemic, they imposed restrictions on exports an...