iPad manufacturing in Brazil? Foxconn gets tax breaks

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iPad manufacturing in Brazil? Foxconn gets tax breaks
Posted on 26 January 2012 by Roberta Prescott.

Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn Technology Co. Ltd., which manufactures the Apple iPad, has received federal tax benefits for producing tablets in Brazil. The manufacturer was given reduced import tax rate for tablet components.
The determination, the country’s official gazette reported Wednesday, provides for exemption or reduction of the IPI (the Industrialized products Tax), PIS and Cofins for companies investing in research and development of technology products. The rule will apply to tablets with touchscreens, no keyboard and weighing less than 750 grams....

Full article:

http://www.rcrwireless.com/americas/20120126/devices/ipad-manufacturing-in-brazil-foxconn-gets-tax-breaks/?elq=d7a17e9530c6460388764d448e43dc56&elqCampaignId=480

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1. I wonder if Brazil

will allow Foxconn to use hexane to clean screens and have enough aluminum dust around to cause explosions while employees work 12hrs/day 6 or 7 days a week?

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2. As long as they put up the suicide nets there should be no problems

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3. do you think they will put the nets up before the workers start jumping?

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4. I hope neither happens but the Foxconn track record isn't very good

Hopefully Brazil will make better stewards for their workers than China has.