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List of Top 10 Highest Value Swiss Export Products

Gold and wrist-watches are iconic examples for some of the highest value Swiss export products for 2016.

The most valuable Swiss exports also include medicines, jewelry, diamonds and coffee.

The following list shows which Swiss exports generated the most sales during 2016. Unlike most information currently available on the web, the items below are detailed at the 4-digit tariff code level. Specific data on export sales can help entrepreneurs identify precisely which products in which Switzerland has strong competitive advantages over other nations, and where there are possible opportunities for innovation.

Highest Value Swiss Export Products

Below are the 20 highest value export products shipped from Switzerland in 2016. Shown within brackets for each item is the change in value from 2009 to 2016.

  1. Gold (unwrought): US$81.6 billion (up 25,384% since 2009)
  2. Medication mixes in dosage: $39.7 billion (up 54.2%)
  3. Blood fractions (including antisera): $26.2 billion (up 83%)
  4. Wrist/pocket watches (no precious metal case): $12.2 billion (up 69.6%)
  5. Jewelry: $10.9 billion (up 179.3%)
  6. Heterocyclics, nucleic acids: $8.4 billion (up 74.4%)
  7. Wrist/pocket watches (precious metal case): $6.3 billion (up 51.7%)
  8. Orthopedic appliances: $6.1 billion (up 6.3%)
  9. Electro-medical equipment (e.g. xrays): $3.3 billion (up 59.5%)
  10. Hormones, miscellaneous steroids: $2.8 billion (up 64.6%)
  11. Diamonds (unmounted/unset): $2.1 billion (up 55.3%)
  12. Coffee: $2 billion (up 116.6%)
  13. Miscellaneous machinery: $2 billion (up 22.9%)
  14. Non-alcoholic drinks (not water/juice/milk): $1.9 billion (up 48.9%)
  15. Turbo-jets: $1.8 billion (down -19.4%)
  16. Scents used for beverage or industrial manufacturing: $1.6 billion (up 14.1%)
  17. Electrical energy: $1.6 billion (down -62.8%)
  18. Taps, valves, similar appliances: $1.5 billion (up 43.1%)
  19. Carboxyamid/amide-function compounds: $1.5 billion (down -37.9%)
  20. Physical/chemical analysis tools: $1.4 billion (up 27.1%)

Among these product categories, unwrought or semi-manufactured gold posted the greatest increase in value up 25,384% from 2009 to 2016.

In second place was exported jewelry which improved 179.3% over the same 7-year period.

Swiss exports of coffee also showed a respectable 116.6% gain in value, while blood fractions including antisera appreciated by 83%.

Overall, exports from Switzerland increased by an average 75.5% since 2009.