At Last: EU Ends The CFL Tariff...

11/28/08 12:51

The headline news was the EU ban on incandescent bulb sales beginning in 2010... The more important but unreported news was the EU quietly letting its usurous 66% import tariff on Chinese-made CFLs lapse...

Could it be the EU was embarassed by this absurd long-running energy-hogging policy? This onerous tariff supported by the EU’s utility industry trade group was responsible for tripling the price of CFLs and billions of pounds of resulting excess CO2 emissions. Here’s the official notice...

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