This position paper is the contribution to the strategic orientation of Swiss foreign economic policy, shows how its success can be secured and strengthened in the long term and forms the basis for supplementary position papers on special issues of foreign economic policy.
Publications
Position papers
2023
18.07.2023
Position Paper on the Foreign Economic Strategy 2024-2028
10.05.2023
Free Trade Agreements (FTA) - Objectives of scienceindustries
The Swiss chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry has a significant interest in trade liberalization and strong intellectual property rights protection at the global, regional, and national level.
2022
28.09.2022
WTO decision on TRIPS Agreement
No expansion to COVID-19 therapeutics and diagnostics
2020
14.05.2020
Position about production and stock keeping in Switzerland
Would it make sense to manufacture more medication in Switzerland so as to exclude supply shortfalls? This is unfortunately neither practical nor efficient.
06.03.2020
The drinking water and ban on pesticides initiatives
2019
06.08.2019
Free Trade Agreements (FTA) - Objectives of scienceindustries
12.07.2019
Briefing Paper on Free Trade Agreement with Japan
scienceindustries basically supports efforts to initiate and implement modernization negotiations for the existing Switzerland-Japan free trade agreement, but not at any price. scienceindustries strongly opposes an amendment to the procedure for origin examination analogous to the EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement.
2018
28.03.2018
Fact Sheet - Exclusion of products from free trade agreements: Palm oil – facts and figures
For fundamental reasons, scienceindustries rejects the exclusion of products from negotiations for free trade agreements. Such exclusions not only contradict the spirit of free trade, but they are also diametrically opposed to the policy of comprehensive mutual market access for all trading partners.
