Tagged with Trade

Switzerland As global trade tensions escalate, Switzerland’s export-driven pharmaceutical industry finds itself at a challenging moment. In May 2025, the United States imposed tariffs of up to 39 percent on Swiss goods, putting pressure on Switzerland’s most important industrial sector, which is responsible for ten percent of GDP and 41 percent…

Switzerland As global trade tensions escalate, Switzerland’s export-driven pharmaceutical industry finds itself at a challenging moment. With the United States imposing tariffs of up to 39 percent on Swiss goods and threatening further measures, the pressure on Switzerland’s most important industrial sector – responsible for ten percent of GDP and over…

Taiwan Carl Wegner, President of AmCham Taiwan, reflects on his first months in the role, highlighting the chamber’s advocacy mission, the strength of its committees, growing US–Taiwan engagement, and major opportunities in healthcare, public-private partnerships, and innovation, especially around the Healthy Taiwan initiative.   Taiwan is the seventh largest US trading…

Europe Rainer Westermann of European life science venture capital lobby group, the Life Sciences Acceleration Alliance, lays out a policy roadmap for how innovative European pharma can continue to grow and thrive against a backdrop of trade uncertainty and precarious US-EU relations.   The US/EU trade deal was presented as necessary…

USA The US pharmaceutical industry is scrambling to align with President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, but may not get all it wishes for…   In its first few weeks in power, the emboldened second Trump administration has enacted a scattergun set of executive orders, covering everything from swingeing cuts to the…

Mexico Mexico has firmly established itself as a regional powerhouse in medical device manufacturing. The country is home to the second-largest medtech market in Latin America, employs around 160,000 people in the sector, and exports around USD 6.4 billion worth of medical devices annually, driven by major investments from global names…

USA As Donald Trump assembles his new government, speculations about the consequences of his second presidential term abound. For the life sciences industry, the US president-elect’s more business-friendly stances could entail the repeal of the much-debated Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) while the naming of vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr as…

Mexico Pedro Casas Alatriste of AmCham Mexico delves into the chamber’s efforts to enhance U.S.-Mexico trade relations, support key industries, and promote sustainable growth amid Mexico’s political transition.   We are entering North America 2.0, poised for renewed growth and collaboration What are the key issues the American Chamber of Commerce…

Belgium Germany and Belgium have long held an important trading relationship, says Margit Kunz of AHK Debelux, the German chamber of commerce in Belgium and Luxembourg. She outlines some of the key industrial investments and trends for German companies within Belux and why Belgium should be better known as an investment…

Vietnam Despite a decline in pharmaceutical sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam is among the 17 countries with the most rapidly growing pharmaceutical industries in the world, as reported by nganhduoc.vn in its 2022 pharma industry forecast. With a market value of some USD 10 billion in 2020, according to another…

Singapore The SGC’s Dr Tim Philippi introduces the sizeable Singaporean-German trading relationship and the importance of healthcare and the life sciences within it. Dr Philippi also outlines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the SGC’s members and why Singapore remains the premier investment destination for European companies in Asia.  …

Asia-Pacific On 15 November 2020, the world’s largest trade deal in terms of GDP – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) –was signed virtually by 15 countries: the ten members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and…