Statistics

Annual Report: No. 24 Switzerland- Swiss-bound exports take off

September 6th, 2006

As Georgia’s trade with Switzerland rose more than a third, the aviation industry gained.

Two categories of aircraft parts dominated Georgia’s trade with Switzerland in 2005, a year that saw their bilateral exchange rise 35 percent to total $576 million.

Some $251 million of the total tally came in the form of exports from the state. Aircraft parts accounted for $90 million of that while regional jet parts swelled fivefold to $24 million.

Exports grew 29 percent but they didn’t keep pace with imports. They gained 40.5 percent to end the year worth $326 million.

The biggest import was merchandise and machinery that previously was exported but had to be returned to the United States for repair and maintenance. Georgia last year received more than $58 million-worth of such imports from Switzerland

The state also imported $35 million in medical equipment, a nearly 30 percent jump when compared with 2004. Imports of heterocyclic chemical compounds soared to $22 million.

On the export side, Georgia sent $35 million in passenger vehicles to Switzerland and $11 million in vegetable fats and oils.

Swiss companies have significant investment in Georgia. Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), the Swiss-Swedish machines and industrial robotics company, has a distribution center in Duluth, Ga., while Ascom Transport Systems has its U.S. headquarters in Norcross. Ciba Specialty Chemicals has a facility in Dalton and Novartis Pharmaceuticals has its regional headquarters in Roswell. Nestle, meanwhile, operates a logistics center in McDonough.

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