Market Access Unit
The Market Access Unit is responsible for the following issues:
- trade in goods, including industrial and agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs, and related regulatory matters
- technical barriers to trade
- trade facilitation, customs technology questions and rules of origin
- general market access questions, including coordination of trade barriers work and implementation of trade agreements
- UK withdrawal from the EU (Brexit), including coordination of the future trade relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom and sectoral liabilities
- trade policy instruments of protection affecting imports, including anti-dumping and countervailing duties, safeguard measures and the Trade Barriers Regulation (TBR) and the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)
- dispute settlement of WTO agreements and bilateral trade agreements, excluding settlement of investment disputes
- market access questions concerning Russia
- sectoral trade policy matters (e.g. forests, steel and textiles)
- internet governance
- analysis and reporting tasks and legal tasks relating to trade policy as agreed separately.
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Post address
Market Access Unit
PO Box 176
00023
GOVERNMENT
FINLAND
Visiting address
Merikasarminkatu 5 F
00160
HELSINKI
FINLAND
Personnel
Tuuli-Maaria Aalto
Director
- +358 295 350 633
- +358 40 352 0463
Jukka Nikulainen
Counsellor
- +358 295 350 485

Ritva Haukijärvi
Commercial Counsellor
- +358 295 350 097
Heli Honkapää
Commercial Counsellor
- +358 295 351 455
Lauri Kangasniemi
Commercial Secretary
- +358 295 535 0262
Kristiina Kauppinen
Desk Officer
- +358 295 351 826
Petri Kuurma
Commercial Counsellor
- +358 295 351 427
Petri Lepistö
Trainee
- +358 295 350 247
Juuso Moisander
Commercial Secretary
- +358 295 350 709
E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@formin.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.