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2012 Leaders' Declaration

ANNEX A - Towards Innovative Growth ANNEX B - Strengthening APEC Energy Security ANNEX C - APEC List of Environmental Goods

ANNEX D - Promoting Cross-Border Education Cooperation ANNEX E - Fighting Corruption and Ensuring Transparency

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2012 Leaders' Declaration - Annex C (184.73 KB, pdf)

Vladivostok, Russia, 8 - 9 Sep 2012

ANNEX C - APEC List of Environmental Goods

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APEC plays an important role in pursuing green growth in the region. While each economy has its own environmental and trade policies, it is vitally important to pursue common approaches to environmental challenges, and take coordinated actions to address climate change, such as promoting trade and investment in goods and services needed to protect our environment and developing and disseminating relevant technologies.

Trade and investment liberalization in environmental goods will help APEC businesses and citizens access important environmental technologies at lower cost, which in turn will facilitate their use and benefit the environment. In addition, it will contribute significantly to APEC’s core mission to promote free and open trade and investment, as embodied in the Bogor Goals.

In that light, we are pleased to endorse the below APEC List of Environmental Goods that directly and positively contribute to green growth and sustainable development objectives on which we will reduce applied tariff rates to 5 per cent or less by the end of 2015 taking into account economies’ economic circumstances and without prejudice to their positions in the World Trade Organization (WTO), as we committed in 2011.

We commit to continue capacity-building activities to assist economies in implementing tariff reductions on the agreed list of environmental goods.

We believe that reducing our tariffs on environmental goods demonstrates our commitment to pursuing green growth objectives, addressing climate change and securing sustainable economic development, and are committed to continuing APEC’s leadership role in this regard.

APEC LIST OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS

HS (2002) HS (2007) HS (2012) HS Code Description EX-OUT / ADDITIONAL Product Specification 441872 Other Assembled Flooring Panels, Multilayer, Bamboo (44187210) of Renewable bamboo-based products are substitutions of wooden is necessities.Since cycle, these bamboo REMARKS / ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT characterized by short growing enviroment-friendly products can save a great deal of water,soil and air resources. 840290 840290 840290 Steam or other Parts for Parts for the biomass boilers described above. [Ca, J, NZ, US, K, Parts for the boilers for the for production of heat and power on the basis of (renewable) biomass fuels. Part for biomass boilers for the vapour generating 840219x. central heating K, Au] boilers (other than [Ca, J, NZ, HK, Au] hot water boilers capable also of Parts producing super-heated J, NZ, K] low biomass pressure steam); boilers. [US] [HK] water boilers. [Ca, Managemeproduction of heat and power on the nt of solid basis of renewable biomass fuels. This product should be seen in Steam or other and vapour generating hazardous relation to HS840219, biomass boilers (other than waste [BD] boiler. Biomass in heating systems central heating uses agricultural, forest, urban and industrial residues and waste to produce heat and electricity with less effect on the environment than fossil fuels. This type of energy production has a limited long term effect on the environment because the carbon in biomass is part of the natural carbon cycle. [S, BD] for hot water boilers capable also of producing super-heated water Parts super-heated water boilers and boilers; Parts: [US] low pressure steam); steam or other vapour generation boilers (other than centra heating hot water [HK] Super-heated water boilers and parts of steam generating boilers [S, BD] 840410 840410 840410 Auxiliary plant for Auxiliary heading 84.02 or with 84.03 example, economisers, super-heaters, soot gas (for 840219x. K, Au] Components of industrial plant air use with boilers of plant for use pollution control which boilers) minimise the release of pollutants into the atmosphere. This equipment recovery processes in waste [Ca, J, NZ, is also used to support waste heat treatment, or renewable energy J, NZ, K, Au, BD] of Components [M, pollution of industrial plant air control which removers, For central resource recovery applications. [Ca, recovers'); heating for boilers condensers vapour steam or other heading power 8403 units. [C, J, NZ, K, BD] Au, Ru, M, BD] Auxiliary for use plant with minimise the release of pollutants into the atmosphere. This equipment is also used to support waste heat recovery treatment, processes [biomass in waste energy boilers of heading 8402 or 8403 (for example, economizers, super-heaters, soot gas [US] Auxiliary plant for use with steam or other vapour removers, recovers'). generation - US only] and other renewable energy resource recovery applications. [US, HK, M] These are soot removers and components of industrial air pollution control plant, which minimise the release of pollutants into the atmosphere. This equipment is also used to support waste heat recovery processes in waste treatment or renewable energy resource recovery