Grace Chen, Founder and Managing Director of Guangdong Grace Kitchen Equipment. 20+ years delivering commercial kitchen equipment and large-scale bakery production lines to hotels, restaurants, bakeries, cafes, schools, hospitals, central kitchens, container kitchens and other foodservice operations in 130+ countries.
Georgia has almost no import duty and largely voluntary certification — which shifts all the quality risk onto your specification. Duty bands, 18% VAT, the China FTA, port constraints at Poti and Batumi, and 2026 FOB budgets for Tbilisi and Batumi projects.
How to specify a commercial smokehouse oven in 2026: sizing by trolley not volume, the four smoke generator types, EU PAH limits for smoked meat, utilities that catch site teams out, and indicative FOB China prices.