[Freeswitch-users] mod_g729

[Raul Fragoso]

Hi Steve,

My point is more towards the high import taxes here. A foreign company
won't pay as much taxes to export to Brazil as brazilians would pay
import taxes for such goods.
I will give you a simple example: a Snom 320 phone would cost roughly US
$180.00 if bought in the US. Here it would cost at least double the
price, but usually more. We pay almost 100% for importing taxes + GST,
excluding the greedy profit that dealers and resellers usually apply,
but Snom (or their distributors) would pay only a small fraction of that
to export phones to Brazil. The irony is that we don't see where all
this money is spent, as the country still suffers of a huge social and
economical dissimilarity among their people.
On the other hand, our current government seems to be making some
progress to make exporting from Brazil easier, specially for small
companies (international trade is known to be very bureaucratic here). 
Anyway, this is turning into a politics discussion thread and I know it
can annoy some people. Just to stay in the subject thread, I also
endorse the support for open codecs rather than paying millions for
G.729 licenses.

Regards,

Raul Fragoso

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 15:23 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Raul Fragoso wrote:
> > Hi João,
> >
> > Please say hello to Giancarlo at Khomp for me :)
> >
> > Khomp is the best example in Brazil of what good engineering and fair
> > commercial prices can do to a country that suffers from high import
> > taxes. Unfortunately some companies are still inclined to buy imported
> > products/brands instead of favouring local production. Apart from this
> > discriminatory issue, I believe that local research and production can
> > turn the table of trade barriers imposed to development countries.
> >   
> Foreigners face huge tariff barriers trying to sell into Brazil. 
> Brazilian makers face little difficulty selling into other markets. If 
> Brazilian makers have any problems in such an environment, I'd be amused 
> to hear them. :-)
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
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