News Mar 01, 2023 EFTA-GCC Free Trade Agreement How to correctly fill out EUR.1 Anyone who does not fill out the EUR.1 movement certificate correctly can expect to have problems with customs in GCC countries. Qatar, at least,...
News Feb 13, 2023 United Arab Emirates: New System for Commercial Document Certification The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates (MoFAIC) has introduced a new system for the certificat...
Success stories Dec 12, 2022 Flowing traffic thanks to ground sensors - from Zurich main station to Dubai Congested traffic, traffic jams, noise and exhaust emissions - motorized traffic poses challenges to cities and their inhabitants and demands a l...
Export Knowhow Aug 30, 2021 Entering the Gulf States market The Gulf States are dependent on imports. This is an excellent opportunity for Swiss export companies, as they are well-positioned in all key are...
News Mar 11, 2021 News for EFTA food exporters The free trade agreement between the EFTA and GCC states provided for the duty-free import of certain goods from July 1, 2019. After delays, Saud...
Global Opportunities Mar 11, 2020 Global Entrepreneurship Programme in Dubai District 2020 will be a global future-proof innovation ecosystem, which will take over the infrastructure of the EXPO 2020 site. It will become a...
News Sep 17, 2019 Waste management: "The UAE is considering using Swiss technologies" Senior manager of an Emirati environmental management company on the potential of Swiss technologies in the UAE.
News Aug 29, 2019 Commitment to forward-thinking environmental technology The Swiss Association for Environmental Technology (SVUT) is the most important trade association of the Swiss environmental technology industry....
News May 24, 2019 Waste Management and Recycling: Follow-up visit in the United Arab Emirates Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates are in close contact in the field of cleantech. After a delegation from the Middle East visited Switzerl...
News Aug 28, 2018 Matchmaking platform: find the right business requests As a step towards supporting the development of cleantech exports the cleantech team at S-GE is working on a pilot test of an online service that...
News Aug 28, 2018 Swiss technology goes big: Largest energy from waste plant in Dubai Dubai’s aim is to become the world’s most sustainable metropolis by 2021. To put these plans into action, the Emirates will get support from Swit...
News Jun 08, 2018 “Our presence in the special economic zone allows us to react much faster to customer requirements” For more than 50 years, R&M (Reichle & De-Massari AG) has been developing and producing leading cabling solutions for high-quality commun...
News Dec 18, 2017 New conformity assessment procedure in the United Arab Emirates The new conformity assessment covers restrictions on the use of hazardous ingredients in electronic and electrical goods (RoHS: Restriction of Ha...
Success stories Nov 07, 2017 Ticino IT for the Middle East Tinext SA in Morbio Inferiore (TI) offers system integration, service and cloud services and has entered the Middle Eastern market.
News Sep 15, 2017 Gulf States: a worthwhile challenge Four Swiss companies talk about their successful involvement, and the economic prospects, in the Arab Gulf States.
News Jun 19, 2017 FAQ: Introduction of Value Added Tax in the United Arab Emirates Recently, the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have agreed on the introduction of Val...
News Sep 05, 2016 Food market in GCC: Swiss SMEs score points in the premium food segment The quality expectations for Swiss food products are high in the Gulf countries. Philipp Straehl has been living in Dubai for over 10 years and k...