Tag: Baltic

Data & Signals

Who will be hit by the EU’s new €3 e-commerce duty?

Not only online shoppers. The new charge reaches rail corridors, Polish warehouses, Baltic parcel operators and the logistics system built around low-value imports.

Statistics & Regulation

Baltic inflation in May: monthly calm, annual pressure

May inflation data from the three Baltic statistical offices show that price pressure has not disappeared. Annual inflation remained unexpectedly high across the region: Lithuania: 5.5% Estonia: 3.7% Latvia: 3.5% The monthly picture looked much calmer.

In Focus

What Operating Environment Is Latvia Selling to Foreign Investors?

Baltic Focus analysisEditor: Galina Molochkova Riga has just hosted a dense run of investor-facing events built around stability, innovation, competitiveness and aftercare. But Latvia’s domestic administrative signal raises a practical question: what kind of state will foreign investors actually meet after the conference stage?

Data & Signals

JURA price-fixing case reaches Baltic coffee-business ownership networks

Latvia’s Competition Council has fined the official Baltic distributor of JURA coffee machines and two Latvian retailers a total of €512,100.17 for maintaining a unified retail price level for JURA products in Latvia over several years.