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# Intelligence: Food & Beverage Import in Switzerland

## Industry Context

- **Payment pressure:** Perishability creates urgency; Demurrage extremely costly for fresh goods

- **Operational control:** container tracking for demurrage avoidance; Fast EUR payments via SEPA

## Country Context

- **Use case:** Pay Swiss suppliers for precision instruments, pharmaceuticals, machinery, watches

- **Settlement:** T+0 (2.3s avg within Unicorn network)

- **Banking:** **IBAN** (International Bank Account Number (Swiss format))

- **Regulatory:** Swiss National Bank oversight; Swiss Customs documentation

## Key Industries in Country

- Precision Manufacturing

- Pharmaceuticals

- Machinery

- Watches

- Finance