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Services and Goods Exports from the Nordics – Strongholds and Profiles of Exporting Enterprises

The first comparative analysis of international trade and services from the Nordic countries.
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The project Profiling Nordic enterprises in Global Value Chains has been carried out by the Nordic national statistical institutes in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in addition to the OECD. The project has been funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

This publication Services and Goods Exports from the Nordics – Strongholds and profiles of exporting enterprises contains the first comparative analysis of international trade and services from the Nordic countries, including a profiling of services exporters.

Furthermore, the publication is based on harmonised national databases holding statistical information at enterprise level from statistical registers covering variables from structural business statistics, business register, international trade in goods and services and business demography.

Statistics Denmark coordinated the project and the project group consisted of the following persons:

Statistics Denmark

Peter Bøegh Nielsen (Chairman)
Michael E. Nielsen
Flemming von Hadeln Løve
Jon Mortensen
Kamilla Elkjær
Søren Burman
Caroline Bo

Statistics Finland

Henri Luomaranta
Lauri Saarinen
Olli-Jussi Sonni

Statistics Iceland

Gísli Már Gíslason
Valgeir Geirsson
Magnus Bergmann

Statistics Norway

Øyvind Hagen
Jan Olav Rørhus

Statistics Sweden

Andreas Poldahl
Claes Petri

This analysis is a follow-up to the 2014 publication Nordic Exports of Goods and Exporting Enterprise. In addition to providing an update of the previous analysis, the present report contributes with new knowledge about different aspects of Nordic enterprises’ and involvement in globalization and global value chains.