Business in Finland, Helsinki. Welfare State

1. Introduction to the Republic of Finland (EU)
2. Finnish Economy: one of the highest welfare system in the world
3. Doing Business in Helsinki
4. Finnish International Trade
5. Transport and Logistics
6. Investment in Finland
7. Main Finnish companies
8. Access to the Finnish Market
9. Business Plan for Finland

International Trade and Business in Finland:

The educational aims of the Subject “Foreign Trade, Logistics and Business in Finland” are:

1. To analyze the Finnish Economy, Logistics and Foreign Trade
2. To conduct research on business opportunities in the Finnish Market
3. To research the trade relations of Finland with the student's country
4. To learn about Finnish free trade agreements as a member of the European Union
5. To develop a business plan for the Finnish Market

The Subject “Foreign Trade, Logistics and Business in Finland” is included within the curriculum of the following academic programs at EENI Global Business School:

Doctorate: World Trade.

Masters: International Business, Foreign Trade.

Languages: + Finlandia Finlande Finlândia.

1. Subject Credits “Doing Business in Finland”: 1

Transport Corridors related to Finland:

1. North Sea-Baltic Corridor (Finland, Belgium)
2. Pan-European Transport Corridor IX (Finland-Greece)
3. Access to the:
   1. Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia, North Korea)
   2. Pan-European Corridor II

Finnish Preferential Access and Trade Agreements:

1. Finland and the European Economic Area
2. European Union
   1. As a member of EU, Finland is a beneficiary of EU Trade Agreements
   2. European Single Market
   3. The European Union Services Directive
   4. European Digital Single Market
   5. Economic and Monetary Union
   6. European Customs Union
3. Council of the Baltic Sea States
4. Regional Cooperation Council
5. Finland is an observer country of the Association of Caribbean States (AEC)

Sample:

1. World Trade Organization (WTO)
   1. Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
   2. Agreement on Sanitary Measures
   3. Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
   4. Agreement on Preshipment Inspection
   5. Agreement on Safeguards
   6. Trade Facilitation Agreement
2. World Customs Organization (WCO)
   1. Kyoto Convention
3. COTIF Convention (Rail)
4. BIC
5. Chicago Convention (ICAO)
6. International Maritime Organization (IMO)
   1. Convention for Safe Containers
   2. Istanbul Convention
7. Customs Convention on Containers
8. International Road Transport Union (IRU)
   1. TIR Convention
   2. Guidelines on Safe Load Securing for Road Transport
9. CMR Convention (UN)
10. Hamburg Rules
11. Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods
12. CIM, CIT Rail Rules
13. International Chamber of Shipping
14. International Chamber of Commerce

European Trade and Economic Organizations of Finland

1. European Union
   1. European Investment Bank
   2. Group of States of the European Council Convention against Corruption
   3. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
2. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
3. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

1. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
2. United Nations
3. Inter-American Development Bank
4. World Bank
5. International Monetary Fund
6. Asian Development Bank
7. African Development Bank
8. Asia-Europe Meeting
9. World Trade Organization (WTO)

1. Finnish Capital: Helsinki
2. Official Language of Finland: Finnish and Swedish
3. Finnish Area: 338,145 km²
4. Finnish Population: 5.5 million people (the second country of EU in relation to population density)
5. Type of Government: Parliamentary Republic
6. Borders of Finland: Norway, Sweden and Russia.
   1. Estonia by sea
7. Finland was part of Sweden until 1809

Main religion in Finland: Lutheran Protestantism.

Finland belongs to the European Economic Area.

Economy of Finland.

1. Finland has virtually no mineral resources
2. Finland is one of the less corrupt countries in the world
3. Currency of Finland: Euro
4. Finland is a member of EU since 1995
5. Microsoft Mobile acquired the Finnish company Nokia in 2014

Finnish Foreign Trade.

1. Main Finnish Exports are paper, machinery and electrical equipment
2. Top Finnish exports destinations are Germany, Sweden and the UK
3. Main Finnish imports: consumer goods and raw materials
4. Top Finnish suppliers: Germany, Sweden and Russia
5. As a member of EU, Finland is beneficiary of EU trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, Mexico, MERCOSUR, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia etc