TTIP and its si­gni­fi­can­ce for Swit­z­er­land

The USA and the EU are cur­rent­ly con­duc­ting ne­go­tia­ti­ons re­gar­ding the crea­ti­on of a com­pre­hen­si­ve Trans­at­lan­tic Trade and In­vest­ment Part­nership (TTIP). With the TTIP, ta­riffs and tech­ni­cal bar­ri­ers to trade are to be re­du­ced or re­mo­ved and trans­at­lan­tic trade in goods and ser­vices bet­ween the EU and the USA is to be fa­ci­li­ta­ted.

For the Swiss busi­ness sec­tor, the EU and the USA are by far the most im­portant ex­port mar­kets. In view of this, if the TTIP ne­go­tia­ti­ons were to be brought to a suc­cess­ful con­clu­si­on, this would also have far-re­aching con­se­quen­ces for Swiss com­pa­nies. The risks and op­por­tu­nities as­so­cia­ted with the TTIP lar­ge­ly de­pend on the scope of the agree­ment and the mea­su­res im­ple­men­ted by Swit­z­er­land in the event that the ne­go­tia­ti­ons should be brought to a con­clu­si­on.