KfW follows the IFC approach for excluding certain project activities from support. Projects related to the following activities are not eligible:

• Production or trade in any product or activity deemed illegal under host country laws or regulations or international conventions and agreements, or subject to international bans, such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides/herbicides, ozone depleting substances, PCB's, wildlife or products regulated under CITES.
• Production or trade in weapons and munitions.
• Production or trade in alcoholic beverages (excluding beer and wine).
• Production or trade in tobacco.
• Gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises.
• Production or trade in radioactive materials. This does not apply to the purchase of medical equipment, quality control (measurement) equipment and any equipment where IFC considers the radioactive source to be trivial and/or adequately shielded.
• Production or trade in unbonded asbestos fibers. This does not apply to purchase and use of bonded asbestos cement sheeting where the asbestos content is less than 20%.
• Drift net fishing in the marine environment using nets in excess of 2.5 km. in length.

All financial intermediaries (FIs), except those engaged in activities specified below, must apply the following exclusions, in addition to IFC's Exclusion List.

• Production or activities involving harmful or exploitative forms of forced labor2/harmful child labor.
• Commercial logging operations for use in primary tropical moist forest.
• Production or trade in wood or other forestry products other than from sustainably managed forests.

For more details please also visit the IFC Exclusion List