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2023년 2월 24일

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B4Ukraine Coalition

Every second Swiss company keeps doing business with Russia one year after the invasion of Ukraine, new analysis reveals

Every second Swiss company keeps doing business with Russia one year after the invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2023

B4Ukraine — an international coalition of more than 80 civil society organisations — calls on the G7, EU, and Swiss governments to do more to urge companies to cut ties with Russia, one year on from the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

  • 52% (or 72 of 139) of Swiss multinationals with ties to Russia at the start of 2022 continue to do business within the country
  • Of the 67 Swiss firms with Russian subsidiaries at the start of the war, only 8 have fully exited, about 12% or just over one in ten
  • For every $1 the Swiss government declares in bilateral aid to Ukraine, Swiss-based companies may still be paying $17 in taxes to the Russian state.

The majority of Swiss international firms which had ties to Russia at the start of 2022 continue to do business in the country, a new analysis of 3,078 multinationals reveals.

Based on data from the Kyiv School of Economics, the analysis titled “Unfinished Business” found 1,717 or 56% of international firms which had ties to Russia at the start of 2022 continue to do business with the country. For Swiss companies that percentage stands at 52% or 72 of 139 companies.

Of the 67 Swiss firms with Russian subsidiaries at the start of the war, only 8 have fully exited, about 12%. While some prominent Swiss brands such as Zurich Insurance have completed their full exits, there are numerous examples of those choosing to remain and conduct business in Russia. Amongst those are the world’s largest food and beverage company Nestlé, an agricultural giant Syngenta Group and a chemicals corporation Ems-Chemie, to mention a few.

The tax contribution of the Swiss companies that chose to remain in the Russia market amounted to roughly $4 billion a year between 2020-2021. And for every $1 the Swiss government declares in bilateral aid to Ukraine, Swiss-based companies may still be paying $17 in taxes to the Russian state.

“One year after the invasion and nine years since the beginning of Russia’s aggression, this is far too little progress,” said Eleanor Nichol, Executive Director of the B4Ukraine Coalition. “While the Swiss government has politically supported Ukraine, over half of their major companies have chosen to continue doing business with the regime — continuing to pay taxes, indirectly supporting this horrific war and undermining sanctions”...

Remaining companies must now also grapple with changes to domestic law requiring them to facilitate conscription for eligible employees and provide material support to the Russian military upon request, as well as threats of government expropriation of their assets.

“Companies are playing a potentially lethal game of corporate Russian roulette by willfully accepting exposure to an array of regulatory, legal, reputational, and financial risks by continuing to do business and utilize supply chains under military control in Russia,” said Rich Stazinski, member of the B4Ukraine Coalition...

B4Ukraine urges all governments and their economic agencies to use all available powers not to support trade and investment activity with Russia, including withholding public money from companies which continue doing business with Russia.

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