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iPad in Brazil
April 17, 2011 | 16h58
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Right there. Foxconn's factory in Jundiaí, São Paulo. PHOTO: DISCLOSURE
Link As anticipated two weeks ago, the federal government was even willing to facilitate the manufacture of tablets in Brazil. But the news this week caught everyone by surprise and anyone who wants to buy a very iPad now has a good reason to wait a bit. Is that on Tuesday, 12, Minister of Science and Technology Mercadante confirmed that Apple and Foxconn will produce the same tablet in Brazil. He must begin to be manufactured here until the end of November this year.

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The president said Roussef Foxconn, a Chinese factory that makes Apple's products, is studying investment of U.S. $ 12 billion in Brazil to produce screens for phones and tablets.

The production conditions of the iPad the country, according to the minister, are being studied by a group involving the ministries of Finance, Development, Industry and Foreign Trade and Science and Technology, and the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social.

One of the factors that made possible the manufacture of the country's iPad Provisional Measure 517, which includes the tablets in the Law of Good, which decreases the PIS / Cofins 9.25% to 0%. In February, when the government announced it would support HB 517, Humberto Barbato, president of the Brazilian Association of Electric-Electronics (Abinee) said: "This could make the tablets manufactured in Brazil will be priced international standard. "

He said the average price of the product manufactured in the country may be between $ 800 and $ 1000. Today, the iPad expense of R $ 1,699 (32 GB model, with Wi-Fi) to R $ 2,399 (64 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G).

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