"In Brazil, everything related to books and newspapers is tax exempt." So they should be - everywhere. But that incident was a long time ago and there have bee

"In Brazil, everything related to books and newspapers is tax exempt." So they should be - everywhere. But that incident was a long time ago and there have been many changes in Australia's import laws since then - WTO, free trade agreements etc. In those days and before, import tariffs were enormous and very easily obtained if you were an Australian manufacturer - all that was needed to obtain a tariff was for a company to say it could manufacture a product, it didn't have to actually do so. Luckily, that nonsence has long gone.