The unpredictability of the US worries export companies, who instead see the EU and Nordic countries as safe, increasingly important trading partners, the Chamber of Commerce says.
Female entrepreneurs are clearly worse off than that of their male counterparts, according to a fresh survey. Meanwhile the number of immigrant business owners has risen sharply.
The North Karelia firm has exported millions of euros’ worth of goods to Russia since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, despite saying that it would wind down its cross-border business.
Increased Chinese exports prompted 240,000 job losses in the EU between 2015 and 2022, and many more redundancies could be looming, Finland’s Chemical Industry Federation says.
Some companies illegally order foreign workers to attend weeks of training without pay – or even charge them for such orientation sessions, say industry insiders.
The company allegedly accepted cash payments of up to tens of thousands of euros by customers from countries outside the EEA, according to the Regional State Administrative Agency of Southern Finland.