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Trade landscape · Switzerland

Coverage: 3 cities · 1 tier-1 · 2 tier-2

↗️ India sell mandates

• Pharmaceutical APIs (under India-EFTA TEPA — 0% duty from 2024; Roche and Novartis active buyers of Indian APIs and intermediates)
• IT engineering (Indian IT companies' Swiss operations growing with EFTA TEPA)
• Precision engineering parts (India-EFTA TEPA watch component opportunity for Surat precision firms)
• Indian food products (Zurich Indian restaurant and grocery market — 50,000 Indian professionals)
• Pharmaceutical APIs (Novartis Basel sources Indian APIs from Hyderabad and Gujarat cluster via EDQM CEP-registered suppliers)
• CRO services (Novartis Hyderabad supplies clinical data analysis to Basel)
• IT services for clinical trials data management (Indian CRO companies: Siro, Lambda)
• Gems and art (Art Basel — Indian contemporary art growing representation)
• Indian trade negotiators (India is a WTO G-20 lead member — Geneva WTO is India\' most important multilateral trade engagement)
• Pharmaceutical diplomacy (India\' TRIPS flexibility arguments advanced at WTO Geneva)

↙️ India buy mandates

• Novartis pharmaceuticals and Roche cancer drugs (India pricing negotiations ongoing)
• UBS and Credit Suisse wealth management for Indian HNIs
• Google India services and cloud (Zurich-directed India investments)
• Glencore commodity sourcing from India (coal, copper)
• Swiss luxury watches (Richemont brands — India luxury market growing)
• Novartis pharmaceuticals (complete oncology, cardiology, immunology portfolio in India)
• Roche India (biosimilars, oncology diagnostics)
• Clariant specialty chemicals (India manufacturing)
• WTO rules application (anti-dumping, safeguards, IP — directly affect Indian trade)
• WHO health guidelines (adopted by India CDSCO for pharmaceutical regulation)