KiwiTechnics News
September 2026 Trade is slowly becoming more and more difficult. EU seems to be following the US lead and asking for duty to be prepaid. This is going to increase prices and the situation is still rather fluid. Shipping to the USA is now possible again. All US shipments are now going to incur a DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) fee. This is made up of 5.3% duty, 12.5% reciprocal tariff, 5% dispersement fee and $5 administration fee. The total of these charges is slightly more than 20% extra on the cost of products. This seems to be changing all the time and it is difficult to keep up with. We have decided to stop producing the original Kiwi-3P and will only make the Kiwi3P Matrix from now on. Due to demand we will continue with the Kiwi-8P. The cost to make the labels has increased a lot so I have had to increase the price slightly. The Kiwi-2 now works with the Roland Juno-1. I finally managed to find one and the new version 3 firmware supports this synth.