[hsudvsish]

heh. the high tafifs were explicitly asked for apple in the early 80s.

brazil had 68k and 8080 clones that were sometimes better than the originals. mostly sold to Soviet bloc countries and yoguslavia.

until they decided to also ship full mac clones instead of only the 68k cpus. the lore says jobs pushed for demands to dept of state, and got that brazil both closed the two cpu clone factories and also added a high eletronics tarif to further make inroads into a viable competition harder. the leverage state dpto used was cutting imports of oranges, from brazil, which was provided by most of the farms from corrupt military-politicians in power at the time.

not many sources online https://www.cultofmac.com/266710/meet-unitron-mac-512-worlds...

...those same people now own soy farms, which china buys and usa sells. so guess which way they will align.