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SDAV Insights Série 5 Insights depuis le 28 juillet 2026

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Swiss exports to China: from half to 99.8% duty-free.

A Swiss machine builder shipping to Shanghai pays duty on part of its catalogue and nothing on the rest; which part depends on tariff lines negotiated in 2013. The optimisation concluded in Bern on 20 August 2026 is set to remove that distinction — in stages, and only for goods that can prove their origin.

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Sources State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) · SECO · EAER / Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China

Tous les Insights de la série SDAV Global, par date

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    North America’s trade rules now renew year by year.

    On 1 July, nothing in North America’s trade rules changed. The horizon behind them changed completely.

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    Europe moves to triple its data centre capacity.

    The European Commission wants to triple EU data centre capacity and to turn cloud sovereignty into a graded procurement specification; for a Swiss supplier, the decisive question is where a third country sits in that grading.

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    India widens its chip bet: from fabs to everything.

    India’s Semicon 2.0, approved on 15 July 2026, extends state support from the plants themselves to the machines, materials, chemicals and gases they consume — the part of the value chain where European and Swiss suppliers are strongest.

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    Nations are building their own AI compute.

    Within five weeks, Japan, South Korea and the European Union each put public money behind computing capacity they intend to control, and each attached rules governing who may use it.

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