Meng Yew Wong

Partner & Global Trade Advisory SEA Practice Leader, Deloitte

Meng Yew is a Partner in the Deloitte Singapore office and is the Leader of the Global Trade Advisory practice and the Climate & Sustainability (ESG) practice in Southeast Asia. He regularly advises clients in navigating their investments into Southeast Asia from a market access perspective involving movement of goods, services and investments. Such advice includes cross border supply chain strategies from a legal, regulatory, tax and trade (WTO) perspective. Meng Yew has close to 20 years of experience in the tax & trade area, which includes more than a decade practising tax and trade law at an international law firm advising clients on tax planning, customs and trade compliance matters and representing clients with regards to disputes with tax and customs authorities in various jurisdictions. On the customs front, Meng Yew regularly advises clients on tariff classification and valuation disputes arising from audits/investigations by customs authorities in the region, rules of origin planning and audit defence under various ASEAN-based Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). He also works on export controls and sanctions matters, helping clients navigate exports of US-origin goods/incorporating US-technology above de minimis levels and to comply with both UN/EU-based sanctions restrictions and requirements. On the trade front, Meng Yew has extensive experience representing producers and exporters in trade remedy investigations and has successfully argued for and against the imposition of trade measures across various industries. He is well versed with judicial review proceedings at both the High Court and the Court of Appeal level in respect of trade remedy cases. Meng Yew has advised ASEAN government bodies comprising finance ministries and trade ministries on issues pertaining to WTO commitments and trade agreement upgrades amongst others. As the Tax & Legal ESG Leader in Southeast Asia, Meng Yew is well versed with carbon tax regimes in the region and works closely with other ESG and trade practitioners in Europe on the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) regime and other environmental and forced labour requirements in the US. He also works closely with the incentive teams to identify tax incentives, grants and other facilitation afforded to companies investing in ESG initiatives. Meng Yew read law (LLB) at the University of Nottingham (UK) and is admitted to practice as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. He has been listed as a notable tax and trade practitioner in Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal (Customs and Trade) and is consistently ranked as a highly regarded tax and trade practitioner by International Tax Review (ITR). During his free time, Meng Yew guest lectures on International Trade Law at the Singapore Nanyang Technological University (NTU).