News from the National Board of Trade
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Mandatory country-of-origin labelling affects the internal market
EU rights
Import & export
Published: 20 Feb 2020
One EU Member States after the other adopt country-of-origin labelling (COOL) for food products. The Swedish National Board of Trade has analysed how such labelling affects the Internal Market.
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Swedish companies benefit from the EU's free trade agreement with South Korea
Import & export
About trade
Published: 27 Nov 2019
Both large and small Swedish companies use the EU's free trade agreement with South Korea to a large degree. The free trade agreement is used to almost 90 percent for imports from South Korea and the total duty savings for Swedish companies is 2.7 million euro per month.
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New report shows the effects of EU regional trade agreements, EU and WTO membership on trade in goods
About trade
Published: 11 Nov 2019
EU regional trade agreements increase trade in goods by an average of 48 percent. The higher the level of ambition, the higher the effect. However, even in comparison with the most ambitious trade agreements, EU membership provides four times higher trade in goods, according to a new analysis from the Swedish...
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Effects of additional tariffs on imports to the USA of motor vehicles and motor vehicle components
Import & export
About trade
EU-US trade conflict
Published: 07 Nov 2019
In a new report, the National Board of Trade Sweden, a government agency, analyses the potential economic effects for Sweden, Germany, other EU countries, the United States and Japan if the United States would impose extra tariffs on imports of motor vehicles from the EU and Japan.