UNICA: Ethanol sales up, production down slightly from last year

Ethanol Producer Magazine


By Erin Voegele | June 18, 2014


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UNICA reports delayed sugarcane harvest, increased ethanol sales

Ethanol Producer Magazine


By Erin Voegele | May 23, 2014


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UNICA: Sugarcane Ethanol Plays Modest But Important Role Supplying U.S. With Advanced Biofuels

Biofuels Journal


Date Posted: April 8, 2014


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UNICA wants Brazil to reinstate ICMS tax policy

Biofuels Digest

Meghan Sapp | October 7, 2013

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UNICA revises sugarcane, ethanol projections

Ethanol Producer Magazine

By Erin Voegele | October 04, 2013

 

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UNICA says cane crush, ethanol sales up in south central Brazil

Ethanol Producer Magazine

By Susanne Retka Schill | June 06, 2013

 

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Brazil must address energy planning, fuel pricing to support ethanol industry: Unica

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Brasilia (Platts)--11Feb2013/650 am EST/1150 GMT

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Brazil's Unica cuts sugar, ethanol output forecast

Business Recorder
September 23, 2012 RECORDER REPORT

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UNICA denies that Brazil has established a new tariff on ethanol

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane February 7, 2012

In Brazil, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) responded to allegations that a pre-existing VAT (value-added tax) on ethanol in the Brazilian state of São Paulo is equivalent to the return of Brazil’s tariff on imported ethanol, which was zeroed in 2010. The statement should be attributed to UNICA President and CEO, Marcos Jank.

“Recent media reports involving a value-added tax on ethanol in the state of São Paulo, known as ICMS (Goods and Services Tax), have included statements implying that this pre-existing tax is somehow equivalent to the reinstatement of Brazil’s federal import tariff on ethanol, which was zeroed by the government at UNICA’s request in 2010.

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US Government Lifts Tariffs on Import of Ethanol

AZOCleantech.com
Published on December 27, 2011 at 4:24 AM
By Cameron Chai

The US Government has done away with all the tariffs that were imposed for thirty years on the subsidies at the domestic ethanol industry and those on the import of ethanol. Effective from January 2012, the US market will be open for the import of ethanol, without any tariffs.
The taxes imposed on ethanol currently are $ 0.54 per gallon for imported ethanol and $ 0.45 per gallon for blenders.

A Washington-based representative of the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) stated that with the lifting of the tariffs, the US market, which is the largest for ethanol, will be more open to import of ethanol, including that made from sugarcane. Sugarcane-based ethanol has been recognised by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an advanced biofuel mainly due to the significant reductions it causes in the greenhouse gas emissions. The tariffs that have been in effect so far were put in place to keep the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol out of the US market. With the tariffs being scrapped out the US market will be able to derive benefit from the fossil fuel that is readily available at a much lower cost and be able to improve environmental sustainability. The lifting of the tariff is the result of prolonged efforts by UNICA in fighting against unnecessary subsidies levied by the US. The President of UNICA explained that they will first focus on fulfilling the demands of the domestic market and then work towards new investments.

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UNICA threatens WTO intervention over tariff

Ethanol Producer Magazine
December 2010
By Kris Bevill
Posted Dec. 8, 2010

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, UNICA, said it will encourage the Brazilian government to initiate dispute settlement proceedings at the World Trade Organization if currently proposed legislation to continue the ethanol import tariff passes the U.S. Congress.

While final details are yet to become available, it is believed that the tax extension package currently being finalized in the U.S. Senate contains language that would continue the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Ethanol Credit at a rate of 36 cents per gallon and would also continue the ethanol import tariff at its current rate of 54 cents per gallon. Joel Velasco, UNICA’s chief representative in North America, said this would essentially double the import tariff, making it impossible for Brazilian exports to enter the U.S. market. “The stated rationale for the ethanol import tariff has always been to offset the blenders’ tax credit and prevent Americans from subsidizing foreign energy production,” he said. “This move would transform it from an offset to a punitive trade barrier.”

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“Does She or Doesn’t She?” US, Brazilian readers, UNICA say Brazil does not subsidize ethanol, slam Growth Energy

Biofuels Digest
April 15, 2010 Jim Lane

Today, April 15th represents “Tax Day” in the United States and appropriately, a war of words over the ethanol tariff and ethanol subsidies has erupted between Growth Energy, UNICA and a number of Digest readers in Brazil and the US.

The controversy, which was featured yesterday in “Circling the wagons, the firing squads and the arguments: ethanol wars explode in print, TV” highlighted the ad campaigns that debuted this week from UNICA and Growth Energy, focusing on ethanol tariff issues as well as ethanol tax credits in the US, which are up for renewal this year.

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