US retracts inaccurate claim about Singapore’s 2024 trade surplus amid probe

On 2026-04-07, Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry said in Parliament that the US Trade Representative had removed an inaccurate statement from its Federal Register notice on Section 301 trade probes. The ministry had clarified that Singapore actually ran a bilateral trade deficit with the US in 2024, contradicting the earlier US claim. The underlying issue was part of ongoing US unfair trade investigations, but the coded event is the formal correction/dispute over the statement.