{"id":131738,"date":"2022-04-12T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/les-etats-unis-deviennent-le-premier-marche-dexportation-helvetique-en-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T10:38:53","slug":"the-usa-becomes-switzerlands-top-export-market-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/the-usa-becomes-switzerlands-top-export-market-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The USA becomes Switzerland&#8217;s top export market in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span class=\"font-377884\">The USA becomes Switzerland&#8217;s top export market in 2021<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3><span class=\"font-377884\"><em>Foreign trade between Switzerland and the USA is booming. Exports have tripled in the last twenty years, reaching their current peak of CHF 47 billion in 2021. At the same time, the USA has displaced Germany as the most important export market for the first time in 70 years.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_131721\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131721\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/fr\/import-export\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-131723 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Import-Export-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"Import - Export\" width=\"840\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Import-Export-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Import-Export-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Import-Export-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Import-Export-1536x1058.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Import-Export.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"font-377884\">Import &#8211; Export<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\">From 2001 to 2021, trade in goods with the USA went &#8220;through the roof&#8221;. Despite the financial crisis of 2008\/09 and the COVID 19 crisis, exports grew by an average of 6.3 percent per year, reaching a record level of CHF 47 billion in 2021. They were thus three times more dynamic than exports to our second and third most important trading partners, Germany (+2.1 percent) and Italy (+2.0 percent).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/leo-isolani-in-switzerland-we-do-give-importance-to-work\/\">Leo Isolani: &#8220;In Switzerland, we do give importance to work&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_131725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131725\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/fr\/statue-of-liberty\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-131727\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Statue-of-Liberty-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"La Statua della Libert\u00e0 \u00e8 un simbolo di New York e degli interi Stati Uniti d'America\" width=\"840\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Statue-of-Liberty-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Statue-of-Liberty-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Statue-of-Liberty-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Statue-of-Liberty-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Statue-of-Liberty.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"font-377884\">The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of New York and the entire United States of America.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"font-377884\">Exports to the USA: three quarters of growth attributable to pharmaceutical products<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\">Between 2001 and 2021, chemical-pharmaceutical products largely dominated the scene. Exports of these products rose from CHF 4.3 billion to CHF 30.1 billion, doubling their share of total exports to the US to 64 percent. On average, exports to the US showed annual growth of 10 percent &#8211; twice as much as to the rest of the world.While shipments of machinery and electronics remained virtually unchanged in value terms, their share fell from 28 to 8 percent. Meanwhile, exports of precision instruments developed similarly to the average (+5.9 percent). Here too, exports to the USA grew twice as strongly as those to the other countries.Food, beverages and tobacco showed the strongest annual growth (+11.5 percent), although they only account for a marginal share. However, this was two and a half times higher in 2021 than twenty years earlier. Watch exports doubled to 3.1 billion Swiss francs, but their share halved over the same period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/fr\/le-commerce-exterieur-entre-la-suisse-et-les-etats-unis-est-en-plein-essor\/\"><strong>Les Etats-Unis deviennent le premier march\u00e9 d\u2019exportation helv\u00e9tique en 2021 (French)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/fr\/die-usa-steigen-2021-zum-wichtigsten-exportmarkt-der-schweiz-auf\/\">Die USA steigen 2021 zum wichtigsten Exportmarkt der Schweiz auf (German)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_131717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131717\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/fr\/usa-map\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-131719\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA-Map-1024x571.png\" alt=\"Mappa degli Stati che compongono gli Stati Uniti d'America\" width=\"840\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA-Map-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA-Map-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA-Map-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA-Map.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"font-377884\">Map of the States that constitute the United States of America<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\">Quelle: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.admin.ch\/gov\/de\/start\/dokumentation\/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-87969.html\"><strong>https:\/\/www.admin.ch\/gov\/de\/start\/dokumentation\/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-87969.html<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign trade between Switzerland and the USA is booming. Exports have tripled in the last twenty years, reaching their current peak of CHF 47 billion in 2021. At the same time, the USA has displaced Germany as the most important export market for the first time in 70 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,260,210,257,1030],"tags":[795,906],"class_list":["post-131738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-highlights","category-magazine","category-switzerland","category-usa-en","tag-economy","tag-export-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131747,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131738\/revisions\/131747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}