The United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA), officially the Free Trade Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Singapore, is a preferential trade agreement between Singapore and the United States that was signed on 6 May 2003. It was ratified by the US House of Representatives on 24 July 2003 by a vote of 272–155, and the US Senate ratified the bill on 31 July 2003 by a vote of 66–32. Then U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act on 3 September 2003 and it officially came into effect on 1 January 2004.