Hello Rogerio and Kim,
We've had quite good luck in avoiding tariffs. Of course for each country we have had to find different creative solutions but in most cases given the health an environmental implications of improved cook stoves solutions exist. a few hints based on recent work. first off LuciaStoves have a slight advantage in that they are sent not assembled and so even without nifty burocraItc solutions they benefit from lower tariffs than a finished product in many cases they are no tariffs for non assembled components and in the worse case scenario you pay the same as raw materials. in other countries we have partnered with either local universities which with the appropriate letter from a minister allows all the stoves to be imported as research. In Africa there are agreements between count ires that share a boarder and if your stoves can arrive in a free port tariff to shared boarders are nill Finally,if you have the good fortune of having a member of parliament or higher see the value of your stoves in their country special rulings can be made for your company. So the truth is, if you are willing to first talk to the right people FIRST most tariffs can be avoided. Hello to all from Sierra Leon where LuciStove production began yesterday. Cheers Nat of WorldStove snip Message: 2 ate: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:22:00 -0400 rom: rogerio carneiro de miranda <[email protected]> o: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <[email protected]> ubject: Re: [Stoves] Tariff barriers to cookstove deployment? essage-ID: <[email protected]> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Kim: With the new approach to have a global stove industry, it should be expected hat duties might be a barrier to wider dissemination to good quality toves, as it has been to other renewable energy technologies, such solar or instance. During a meeting in Washington DC in 2008 with the leading industry epresentatives, this issue was mentioned, however I have not heard much omplains lately. I think that Envirofit and StovesTec are the ones in position to tell us how uch duties has affected their business. I know that ethanol stoves for nstance has faced duties and customs bureaucracy in both Brazil and adagascar, but the stoves were introduced as pilot project, not ommercially as yet. Eventually the stove industry should come together and work with policy akers to pass policies that exempt cleaner & quality stoves from duties, if e 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 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ toves mailing list [email protected] ttp://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_listserv.repp.org End of Stoves Digest, Vol 50, Issue 9 ************************************
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