 Business in Luxembourg
Syllabus of the Subject - Foreign Trade and Business in Luxembourg
- Introduction to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (European Union)
- Luxembourger Economy: one of the most important financial centres of Europe
- Doing Business in Luxembourg
- Luxembourger Foreign Trade
- North Sea-Mediterranean Transport Corridor (Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Luxembourg
- Access to the Luxembourger Market
- Business Plan for Luxembourg
Luxembourger Preferential Access and Free Trade Agreements
- Luxembourg and the
European Economic Area
- European Union
- As a member of the European Union, Luxembourg is a beneficiary of the
EU Free trade agreements with
Algeria,
Ivory Coast,
South Africa,
South Korea,
India,
Mexico,
Ukraine,
Moldova,
Georgia,
MERCOSUR,
Chile,
Egypt,
Jordan,
Lebanon etc. besides the
Customs Union with Turkey
The objectives of the Subject “Doing Business in Luxembourg” are the following:
- To analyse the Luxembourger Economy and Foreign Trade (Import, Export, FDI)
- To know the business opportunities in the Luxembourger Market
- To analyse the Luxembourger trade relations with the country of the student
- To know the Luxembourger free trade agreements as a member of the European Union (EU)
- To develop a business plan for the Luxembourger Market
Description of the Subject: Doing Business in Luxembourg

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Europe)
- Luxembourger Capital: Luxembourg
- Official Language of Luxembourg: French, Luxembourger, German
- Luxembourger Area: 2,586 square kilometres
- Luxembourger Population: 543,202 of people
- Type of Government: Parliamentary Monarchy
- Borders of Luxembourg: France, Germany and Belgium
- Luxembourg is a landlocked country
- Independence of Luxembourg: 1867 (Netherlands)
Religion in Luxembourg: Catholicism (Christianity)
Luxembourg belongs to the Western-Christian Civilisation (European Economic Area)
Economy of Luxembourg.
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is one of the most important financial centres in Europe (28% of
the Luxembourger GDP): investment funds and high-risk, private banking, capital management
- Luxembourger GDP (nominal): 31,376 million EUR
- GDP per capita: 68,500 euros (one of the largest in the world)
- Luxembourger Currency: Euro (1999)
- Luxembourg is a member of the European Union since 1958
- Luxembourg has an outstanding logistics platform thanks to its strategic position between France, Belgium and Germany
- The Luxembourger steel industry is crucial
- Luxembourg offers significant tax advantages for companies (it is one of the European Countries with least taxes)
- There have been several scandals related to the tax evasion that has hit companies like Pepsi Cola, Ikea, Procter & Gamble, FedEx, Accenture, Burberry, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank or Amazon
- The OECD does not consider Luxembourg as a tax haven
- Arcelor Mittal, the world steel leader, has its headquarters in Luxembourg
- 60% of the workforce is foreigner
- The Headquarters of the Court of Justice of the European Union are in
Luxembourg
Luxembourger Foreign Trade.
- The main Luxembourger Exports are machinery, steel products, chemical products and rubber
- Top Export Markets of Luxembourg: Germany (23%), France, Belgium, Italy
- The main Luxembourger Imports are minerals, metals, airplanes, chemical products, luxury products
- The main suppliers of Luxembourg are Belgium (31%), Germany, France, the United States
- As a member of the European Union, Luxembourg is a beneficiary of the EU Free trade agreements
with the ASEAN,
Egypt,
Jordan,
Lebanon, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia...
International economic relations of Luxembourg
- International Chamber of Commerce
- Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
- Group of States of the European Council Convention against Corruption (GRECO)
- European Union
- European Investment Bank (EIB)
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
- United Nations (UN)
- World Bank
(WB)
- World Trade Organisation (WTO)
- International Monetary Fund
(IMF)
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
-
Asia-Europe Economic Meeting (ASEM)
Examples of the Subject - Foreign Trade and Business in Luxembourg:


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