Nobody flew to argentina they were just fired. There are interviews with the last employes reporting that they didn't even got pay after they were fired. It was a suprise decission for them too. What you are saying here is just no sense.
We have multiple Ministers of Justice and multiple level courts on Brazil , so an higher court can block lower court decisions, even more when that is still been processed.
There are several Ministers of Justice, but there is only one Ministry of Justice, that answers to the president and is not part of the Judicial Branch.
Anyway, this decision was from the PROCON-DF that is a part of the Judicial Branch where no Minister of Justice works on. It's also only valid at Brasília.
Is not only the import tarrif, we also pay federal tax around 10% and state tax around 17% and those are couting the import tarrif and the cost of shipping for it's base. I also want to add here that 90% of salary workers in Brazil receive less than R$3500 as salary each month, before income tax, so for buying even an iPhone 14 you need to save almost 3x your montly wage.
But 15% + 10% + 17% adds up to 42%. But Apple products are often 80-100% more expensive in Brazil compared to the USA and Canada What accounts for the rest of the difference?
Actually using these values it should be closer to 60% as the states taxes is over the import tax and the federal tax. It should be like this: (15%*10%)/(1-17%). Yes taxation in Brazil is confusing.
As for the 40% remaining it should also have reservation for financing as it is common in Brazil to offer 12x flat rate financing on purchases even thought we have around 10% inflation annually and high default rate. But i agree that around 20% to 15% in this 40% gap should be additional profit over Brazilian operations.
