A company which wants to enter into a new market must first understand the target market’s business environment and how to create and retain customers by providing better value than the competition. As the environment changes, businesses must adapt in order to maintain strategic fit between their capabilities and the marketplace. When we are analyzing the macro environment of a company we usually use the PESTE analysis to help us to clear our goal, identify all the factors which are affecting our company directly or indirectly. Such us political factors, economic factors, social factors, technological factors, environmental factors and legal factors.
Political factors.
Political factors can influence marketing decisions by determining the rules by which business can be conducted. The relationship between government and business organizations can have major implications not only for the respective parties, but also other companies (Jobber 2004: 146) When we are talking about political factors we have to take in mind the trading policies. Finland’s general trade policy emphasized dismantling barriers to trade and investment and participation in an open world economy. The key challenges include customs duties and nontariff barriers to trade and trade distorting measures that are still prevalent in many markets. Finnish Competition Authority is an organization to protect sound and effective economic competition and to increase economic efficiency in both private and public-sector activity. Membership in the EU has changed the operating environment of Finland's trade policy, and the EU’s negotiating power has significantly strengthened Finland’s trade policy position. In this case because our company is going to import the goods from Slovakia and Austria that makes it quite easier because both countries are EU members. Trade in goods and services is a key component of the negotiations carried out in the World Trade