Market Access Unit

The Market Access Unit is responsible for the following issues:

  • General market access issues, including technical barriers to trade (TBT) and trade barriers
  • Implementation of trade agreements
  • Trade facilitation, customs procedures and rules of origin
  • Trade in goods (industrial and agricultural products) and related regulation, sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS)
  • Trade policy instruments, e.g. trade defence, anti-coersion, international public procurement
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Public procurement
  • State aid
  • Trade related aspects of standardization
  • Coordination of economic sanctions
  • Trade related aspects of technology, internet governance
  • Sector-specific trade policy issues, including steel
  • Foreign trade and security of supply
  • Trade policy related questions concerning Asian, Central-Asian and Eastern European countries and Russia

Email

  • KPO-20@gov.fi

Post address

Market Access Unit
PO Box 176
00023
GOVERNMENT
FINLAND

Visiting address

Merikasarminkatu 5 F
00160
HELSINKI
FINLAND

Personnel

Sanna Selin
Director
  • +358 295 350 612
Jukka Nikulainen
Counsellor
Desk Officer
Deputy Director
  • +358 295 350 485
Iris Hiltunen
Second Secretary
Desk Officer
  • +358 295 350 426
Janne Hirvonen
Second Secretary
Desk Officer
  • +358 295 350 072
Petri Kuurma
Commercial Counsellor
  • +358 295 351 427
Aleksi Kuusisto
Commercial Counsellor
  • +358 295 350 234
Julia Lintunen
Commercial Counsellor
  • +358 295 350 581
Mary-Anne Nojonen
Commercial Counsellor
  • +358 295 351 494

E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@gov.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.