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Exports picked up again in July <\/p>\n
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Switzerland\u2019s foreign trade rebounded in July, with exports showing strong growth following a decline the previous month.\n<\/p>\n
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The growth was once again driven by the chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector, as well as a recovery in sales to the European Union.<\/p>\n
During the month under review, exports surged by 13.8% in nominal terms (unadjusted for inflation) and compared with the previous month to CHF27.79 billion ($34.88 billion), while imports fell by 4.5% to CHF19.65 billion, according to figures released on Thursday by the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Read more: Basel\u2019s world-beating pharma hub fights for place in new global order Swiss foreign trade thus ended the period with a trade surplus that had doubled compared with June, standing at CHF8.14 billion.<\/p>\n The chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector, the driving force behind exports, once again underpinned international sales, with a 25.7% increase, following a 7.4% decline in June.<\/p>\n By contrast, the machinery, electronics and equipment sector fell by 0.5%. The watchmaking sector grew by 5.8%, whilst the jewellery sector fell by 12.5% compared with the previous month.<\/p>\n The European Union, the main customer for Swiss companies, saw a significant rebound of 25.5% in exports, following an 11.2% fall in June. In Asia, sales to China also accelerated sharply (+27.1%), followed by Japan (+4.4%) and South Korea (+8.9%).<\/p>\n Exports to the US, however, fell (-1.8%), while those to Brazil surged (+20%).<\/p>\n +\u00a0How we produce English news<\/a> Articles in this story <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exports picked up again in July Keystone-SDA Switzerland\u2019s foreign trade rebounded in July, with exports showing strong growth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,300,368,114,100,566,103,102,41,17,630],"class_list":["post-118189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-pharma-supply-chains","tag-beat-trade-policy","tag-business","tag-latest-news","tag-multinationals","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-sda-ready-to-publish","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-work"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117130022793189696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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