Apple don't bother arbitraging away taxes most places I've looked.
They also seem to have started doing USD<->Local Currency pricing 'adjustment' far more regularly than I would have expected. I have watched the base price for an App in Australia fluctuate between $0.99 and $1.29 over the last two years. They are always slower to change the price 'down' than 'up'. So I'm not surprised at the fact they would just 'pass on the full cost' to an entire country. I'm pretty sure even with the import tax they are probably adding a 'nuisance surcharge' to the price of the laptops, because of the 'costs of tax compliance' and other typical corporate excuses.
They also seem to have started doing USD<->Local Currency pricing 'adjustment' far more regularly than I would have expected. I have watched the base price for an App in Australia fluctuate between $0.99 and $1.29 over the last two years. They are always slower to change the price 'down' than 'up'. So I'm not surprised at the fact they would just 'pass on the full cost' to an entire country. I'm pretty sure even with the import tax they are probably adding a 'nuisance surcharge' to the price of the laptops, because of the 'costs of tax compliance' and other typical corporate excuses.