Trading Partner Portal: Sweden
Overview
Trade Overview
Sweden is a high income county in Northern Europe and is slightly larger than California in relative size. Sweden has a population of 10.35 million people and a gross domestic product (GDP) of $541.2 billion. Sweden has one of the highest standards of living in the world with a strong capitalist system and welfare state. Sweden is one of the 28 countries in the European Union. World Bank, CIA
The United States is one of Sweden’s top 5 largest export destination. The United States imported $14.8 billion worth of Swedish goods in 2021. The key imported goods from Sweden into the US were transportation equipment, chemicals, non-electrical machinery totaling over $3.5 billion, $2.7 billion, and $2.6 billion, respectively. Followed by computer and electronic products at $924 million. Sweden is the 43rd largest export destination for goods for the United States. In 2021, the United States exported $5.26 billion worth of products to Sweden. The main exports included chemicals, which composed $1.2 billion of all exports to Sweden. Other main product exports from the US to Sweden were computer and electronic products, oil and gas, and transportation equipment, .
Direct investment from the United States into Sweden totaled around $57.698 billion in 2021, while FDI from Sweden into the US was approximately $68.54 billion of the same year. In 2019, Swedish FDI supported 226,700 jobs in the US, contributed $743 million to research and development and another $9.3 billion to expanding US exports. The top industry sectors for Swedish FDI in 2018 were: software and IT services, industrial equipment, communications, business services, metals, and automotive OEM. (Select USA)
Sweden- California Trade
California is one of the largest importers of Swedish goods. In 2021, California imported around $1 billion worth of goods from Sweden. In 2021, transportation equipment equated to $524 million of all imports from Sweden. Other goods imported into California from Sweden were chemicals, computer and electronic products, and non-electrical machinery. Though Sweden is California’s 32nd largest export destination, California is the second largest exporting state to Sweden in the US. California exported $623 million of products to Sweden in 2021. The key exports from California were computer and electronic goods, chemicals, transportation equipment, miscellaneous manufactured commodities. Exported computer and electronic products to Sweden made up $347 million of the total. US Department of Commerce
In California, the ninth largest source of FDI through foreign-owned enterprises (FOEs) is Sweden. In 2021, Swedish FOEs in California provided 17,112 jobs through 293 firms amounting to $1.52 billion in wages. The top jobs by sector are: retail trade, construction, information, manufacturing and professional/business services (World Trade Center Los Angeles FDI Report).
2019 Nordic-U.S. M&A Study
Alston & Bird, April 8, 2020
Trade Agreements
Trade Agreements and Issues
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Sweden is one of the European nations that are currently involved in negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the rest of the European Union and the United States. The United States and the European Union have a strong bilateral trade relationship totaling $698.7 billion in 2015. A free trade agreement, such as TTIP, desires to strengthen that relationship by eliminating tariffs, aligning compatible regulations to open trade, and furthering trade in the service sector.
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
USTR Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership