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The National Board of Trade is the Swedish governmental agency dealing with foreign trade and trade policy. The Board provides the Government with analyses and recommendations. You find more information about The National Board of Trade on this web site.
Latest News
Simpler for EU citizens to obtain Swedish ID cards
Facilitate for EU citizens also, the procedure for obtaining ID cards in Sweden. This proposal was made by the National Board of Trade in their comment on a proposal for simplification of the procedure for non-EU citizens to obtain ID cards in Sweden.
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Report on Sweden’s Foreign Trade in 2009
During 2009 Sweden’s export volume decreased by 18 per cent and the import volume decreased by 16 per cent compared with 2008. Engineering goods and mineral goods are those export branches worst affected by the crisis. However, these product groups are among the groups that started to recover towards the end of the year, which is described in the National Board of Trade report on Sweden’s Foreign Trade in 2009.
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Two new reports on the Servicification of Swedish manufacturing
The manufacturing industry uses produces and sells more services today than previously, which is a sign that the Swedish economy is focused on”servicification”. In two new reports, the National Board of Trade analyses the relationship between services and industry. In one of the reports there is an analysis of this servicification of Swedish industry over the last 30 years. The other one exemplifies which services industrial companies use and sell, and it also takes up the consequences for trade policy.
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Point of Single Contact
The National Board of Trade, together with the Swedish Consumer Agency and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth have, by direction of the government, built up the Swedish Point of Single Contact for services. The main role of the contact point is to facilitate service providers’ and service recipients’ access to the information they need to be able to carry on service operations in an EU country. The contact point is web-based with a supplementary manual service function.
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Recent Studies
Servicification of Swedish Manufacturing
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At your service
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Open Trade or Protectionism? Developments in trade policy since 1995
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Climate measures and trade Legal and economic aspects of border carbon adjustment
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The relationship between international trade and foreign direct investments for Swedish multinational enterprises
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Anti-dumping complaints on certain steel products – the impact on user groups
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Supply Chain Security Initiatives: A Trade Facilitation Perspective
In this report the national Board of Trade provides an overview of existing major security initiatives and presents a comparison between the rules applied by the USA and the EU in their respective Customs-Trade partnerships and rules on advance information.
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Read more about Supply Chain Security Project
The WTO Decision on Compulsory Licensing
Does it enable import of medicines for developing countries with grave public health problems?
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Adding value to the European economy
How anti-dumping can damage the supply chains of globalised European companies. Five case studies from the shoe industry.
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