The relationship between Sweden and the United States stretches back further than the United States itself.
Swedish settlers arrived along the Delaware River in 1638. Sweden became one of the first countries to recognize the newly independent United States in 1783. Over the centuries that followed, more than a million Swedes crossed the Atlantic and became part of the American story.
Tale brought that history to life in a short film produced for the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm as the United States marked its 250th anniversary this year.
It is a story worth remembering. But for AmCham Sweden, it matters even more because the story is still being written.
Today, the U.S.–Sweden economic relationship represents more than $216 billion in trade and investment and supports more than 400,000 jobs across our two countries.
Those figures are impressive. But the real story lies behind them.
It's in American companies investing in Sweden and Swedish companies expanding across the United States. In research partnerships and new technologies. In factories, data centers, medicines, infrastructure, services, and supply chains. In the people hired, ideas exchanged, risks taken, and long-term commitments made on both sides of the Atlantic.
And those connections are becoming more important, not less.
The world is becoming more complex, more contested, and less predictable. Economic security and national security are increasingly inseparable. Companies are designing not simply for speed and efficiency, but for resilience, security, and staying power.
Against that backdrop, the depth of the U.S.–Sweden relationship is a strategic asset.
Political debates and headlines will keep changing. Beneath them, the underlying business ties and appetite for engagement remain robust. American and Swedish businesses continue to invest in one another, innovate together, and drive each other forward.
Help Us Tell the Story
AmCham Sweden wants to make that relationship tangible.
We are collecting stories from our members that demonstrate what the transatlantic relationship looks like in practice: investment, innovation, growth, jobs, collaboration, and long-term commitment.
Perhaps your company is making a significant investment in Sweden or the United States. Perhaps a Swedish innovation is growing through the U.S. market. Perhaps teams on opposite sides of the Atlantic are developing a new technology, building greater resilience, or solving a problem neither could tackle alone.
Those are the stories we want to tell.
Share your story with AmCham Sweden and help us build a fuller picture of the companies and people carrying this centuries-old relationship forward.
Because the strongest case for the transatlantic relationship is not simply its history. It is what we are building together now.
