Kim: With the new approach to have a global stove industry, it should be expected that duties might be a barrier to wider dissemination to good quality stoves, as it has been to other renewable energy technologies, such solar for instance.
During a meeting in Washington DC in 2008 with the leading industry representatives, this issue was mentioned, however I have not heard much complains lately. I think that Envirofit and StovesTec are the ones in position to tell us how much duties has affected their business. I know that ethanol stoves for instance has faced duties and customs bureaucracy in both Brazil and Madagascar, but the stoves were introduced as pilot project, not commercially as yet. Eventually the stove industry should come together and work with policy makers to pass policies that exempt cleaner & quality stoves from duties, if we want to enable markets for a higher access to cleaner cook stoves. Rogerio 2010/8/4 Jean Kim Chaix <[email protected]> > Hi, stovers. > I was wondering how significant are import duties to the unit cost of > manufactured stoves? That is, do tariffs levied by countries represent an > obstacle to large-scale clean cookstove technology deployment? > Thanks. > Kim > > -- > J Kim Chaix > The Charcoal Project > charcoalproject.org > (+1) 917.378.8670 > > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_listserv.repp.org > http://stoves.bioenergylists.org > http://info.bioenergylists.org >
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