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The Swiss-American love of Cuban cigars

This content was published on Mar 22, 2016 Which may go a little way toward explaining why some two-thirds of the total value of cigars imported into Switzerland come from Cuba. (It’s about one-third when measured by volume, which shows how pricey those Cuban smokes tend to be.) Since 1988, the value of Cuban cigars imported into Switzerland has more than doubled. Americans’…

Difficult year for sugar beet farmers

This content was published on Mar 22, 2016

Swiss court denies Dutch request for UBS bank details

This content was published on Mar 21, 2016 On July 23, 2015, the Dutch tax authorities had submitted a request to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration for UBS banking details on the basis of the double taxation treaty (DTT-NLL) that exists between Switzerland and the Netherlands since February 2010. The St. Gallen-based court viewed it as a “fishing” attempt. “Rather than disclosing any…

Hurdles to merging ‘Swiss Made’ with ‘Made in China’

This content was published on Mar 21, 2016 With Europe an increasingly attractive target for Chinese investment, some 70 Swiss brands have been subject to Chinese mergers and acquisitions.

Migros retailer tries its hand at healthcare

This content was published on Mar 20, 2016

People’s Party and federal railways hacked

This content was published on Mar 18, 2016 “The Swiss Federal RailwaysExternal link website was hard to access on Monday afternoon for about an hour and in the evening for around one and a half hours due to a DDoS attack,” federal railways spokesman Daniele Pallecchi told the Swiss news agency on Friday. A DDoS (distributed denial of service)External link is a type…

FIFA publishes financial figures

This content was published on Mar 17, 2016 World football governing body FIFA has revealed that former president Sepp Blatter earned CHF 3.6 million in 2015 ($3.7 million).

3D printing adds new time-telling dimension

This content was published on Mar 17, 2016 The idea of an amateur making their own version of the tourbillon mechanism from scratch might seem at odds with this hallmark of haute horlogerie.

Swiss music labels feel the blues

This content was published on Mar 16, 2016 The 35 or so music labels which make up the Swiss branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reported total turnover last year of CHF81.8 million ($82.8 million), a 3.5% drop on the previous year. Since 2001, the Swiss music market had shrunk by 73%, the association said on Wednesday. The digital…

Netherlands requests Dutch citizens’ Swiss bank data

This content was published on Mar 16, 2016 Finance ministry spokeswoman Lindy van Galen said there was no concrete information that had led to the requests made via Swiss authorities regarding the accounts at the two banks. “If you have savings, whether in Switzerland or the Netherlands, you have to pay taxes on them,” she said. “There was no possibility of checking in…

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