Singapore has been the most active of the negotiating entities involved, and also has generated the most complex and comprehensive of the resulting agreements. [...] Singaporean policy is also now oriented towards the development of a network of negotiated economic relationships which seek to develop government to government partnership agreements well beyond the goods and services type agreements in the WTO and earlier FTA’s and with many trading entities. [...] The government of Singapore, for instance, undertakes to act solely on the basis of commercial considerations in purchases and sales of goods and services involving government enterprises; not to enter into exclusionary or competition restraining practices with competitors, not to use voting rights to influence decisions of government enterprises in non commercial ways, and to have as a goal to ev [...] In the WTO these was considerable discussion of competition related issues following the 1996 Singapore ministerial and prior to the launch of the Doha Round. [...] The ASEAN-Japan and ASEAN-India agreements are virtually the same and contain general commitments to create a liberal and competitive environment for investment, to strengthen cooperation in investment, improve transparency of laws and regulations, and to protect investors.