Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:

> Jinx escreveu:
>> I can't figure out the rationale of how a particular country is
>> included. You might expect very few, if any, requests from Bhutan
>> and more than a few from England (England ? Great Britain, please)
> 
> It is related to the import laws and taxes in the destination
> country. Brazil is not included because of our very restrictive
> import regulations and high taxes. 
> 
> Texas Instruments used to send free samples to Brazil, then they
> stopped and explained in their site that the new (at that time)
> regulations in Brazil made it too expensive to do so. 

At one time, I ordered some free samples, I think from TI. They arrived
with an invoice that stated the list value of the samples, and a
discount to make the total 0. I got charged the standard import tax
(which is close to 100%, after everything is added up) on the sample
value. That was not fun... 

Gerhard
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