{"id":8344,"date":"2011-09-28T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8344"},"modified":"2018-07-17T18:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T18:11:52","slug":"brazil-production-for-xbox-360s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/brazil-production-for-xbox-360s\/","title":{"rendered":"Flextronics Starts Brazil Production for Xbox 360s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10645\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10645\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10645 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Xbox_360_Brazil-S-e1427695057717.jpg\" alt=\"The Xbox 360 is now being made in Brazil.\" width=\"390\" height=\"293\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Xbox 360 is now being made in Brazil.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SEPT. 28, 2011 \u2022 Microsoft announced that its production partner Flextronics Intl. Ltd. is now producing Xbox 360s in Manaus, regional capital of Brazil&#8217;s Amazonas state. The production facility can produce up to 17,000 of the consoles a week.\u00a0 Sales of these Brazilian-made Xbox 360s are expected to commence in Brazil during October. Such local production is expected to reduce the cost to consumers in the country by 40%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: This is actually quite the brilliant move by Microsoft. If tariffs and duties are problem, circumvent them by producing in-country. The last time we checked, Brazil charged a 60% duty on the declared value of the imported item, plus an 18% tax. Getting rid of that 60% import duty should make the Xbox 360 very attractive compared to the PS3, that went on sale officially in the country last August for 1,999 Reais ($1,130).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPT. 28, 2011 \u2022 Microsoft announced that its production partner Flextronics Intl. Ltd. is now producing Xbox 360s in Manaus, regional capital of Brazil&#8217;s Amazonas state. The production facility can produce up to 17,000 of the consoles a week.\u00a0 Sales of these Brazilian-made Xbox 360s are expected to commence in Brazil during October. Such local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[254,58,78],"tags":[252,52,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16549,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/16549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}