On this page you find the latest reports from the National Board of Trade:

2010:2 At Your Service - The Importance of Services for Manufacturing Companies and Possible Trade Policy Implications
This paper starts by briefly discussing the increased importance of services before the case study of Sandvik Tooling and its level of “servicification”. Secondly, the paper discusses the possible effects of restrictions on services and how trade policy measures can help companies. Finally, we draw some conclusions from a trade policy perspective.

2010:1 Servicification of Swedish Manufacturing
The rise in the economic importance of services and services trade needs to be better understood as well as implications for trade policy. Therefore, we analyse the increasing inter-linkage between goods and services, both in production and trade. We find that Swedish manufacturing has been servicified.