Germany Establishing a genuine European investment promotion platform is central. Understanding ourselves as strong nations is probably the most important shift needed over the next few years. Achim Hartig, Director of Foreign Direct Investment at Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) and Chair of the OECD Network of Investment Promotion Agencies, discusses…
Korea Jungmin Rho is the Director of KOTRA – the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency – and one of the organisation’s most seasoned voices on pharmaceuticals and life sciences. With more than two decades spent developing export support programmes for Korean companies across postings in Poland, Egypt, India, and Sweden, he brings…
China After six years leading the French Healthcare Alliance China, Olivier Dessajan has watched the Franco-Chinese healthcare relationship transform beyond recognition; from a one-way flow of products and partnerships into something far more reciprocal. In conversation at the Asia Summit on Global Health 2026 in Hong Kong, Dessajan reflects on what…
Korea Switzerland and South Korea may be separated by thousands of kilometres, but their economic relationship has never been closer. Bilateral trade reached nearly USD 8 billion in 2025, pharmaceutical flows are surging, and a growing web of R&D partnerships is linking two of the world’s most innovation-intensive ecosystems. At the…
Switzerland As global trade tensions escalate, Switzerland’s export-driven pharmaceutical industry finds itself at a challenging moment. In May 2025, the United States imposed tariffs of up to 39 percent on Swiss goods, putting pressure on Switzerland’s most important industrial sector, which is responsible for ten percent of GDP and 41 percent…
Switzerland As global trade tensions escalate, Switzerland’s export-driven pharmaceutical industry finds itself at a challenging moment. With the United States imposing tariffs of up to 39 percent on Swiss goods and threatening further measures, the pressure on Switzerland’s most important industrial sector – responsible for ten percent of GDP and over…
Taiwan Carl Wegner, President of AmCham Taiwan, reflects on his first months in the role, highlighting the chamber’s advocacy mission, the strength of its committees, growing US–Taiwan engagement, and major opportunities in healthcare, public-private partnerships, and innovation, especially around the Healthy Taiwan initiative. Taiwan is the seventh largest US trading…
Europe Rainer Westermann of European life science venture capital lobby group, the Life Sciences Acceleration Alliance, lays out a policy roadmap for how innovative European pharma can continue to grow and thrive against a backdrop of trade uncertainty and precarious US-EU relations. The US/EU trade deal was presented as necessary…
USA The US pharmaceutical industry is scrambling to align with President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, but may not get all it wishes for… In its first few weeks in power, the emboldened second Trump administration has enacted a scattergun set of executive orders, covering everything from swingeing cuts to the…
Mexico Mexico has firmly established itself as a regional powerhouse in medical device manufacturing. The country is home to the second-largest medtech market in Latin America, employs around 160,000 people in the sector, and exports around USD 6.4 billion worth of medical devices annually, driven by major investments from global names…
USA As Donald Trump assembles his new government, speculations about the consequences of his second presidential term abound. For the life sciences industry, the US president-elect’s more business-friendly stances could entail the repeal of the much-debated Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) while the naming of vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr as…
Mexico Pedro Casas Alatriste of AmCham Mexico delves into the chamber’s efforts to enhance U.S.-Mexico trade relations, support key industries, and promote sustainable growth amid Mexico’s political transition. We are entering North America 2.0, poised for renewed growth and collaboration What are the key issues the American Chamber of Commerce…
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