Quoted from CactusJack:It was not uncommon in coin-op past to set up "final assembly" plants in other countries to avoid paying super high import taxes. In the video era, logic boards and art packages were sent over and cabinets were built locally and things like control panels, Coin Doors and Monitors and power supplies were sourced elsewhere for import
Bingo.
No panic people ... this is what will be happening.
Stern will ship components to a plant in Brazil for final assembly ... all to skirt around the Brazilian import taxes.
You might find that they will ship fully completed playfield assemblies ... maybe cabinets in knock down form, or maybe the local guys will make the cabinets locally. Anyone can make a pinball cabinet and slap some stickers on it.
This is what happened with arcade games in New Zealand in the 70s/80s. We had horrendous import taxes to protect the local manufacturers. So the gaming companies imported only the game boards and controls from the manufacturer, and the cabinets and TV components were made here. Yes, NZ used to make its own TVs....
In the 70s, Stern Pinball used to ship components to LAI in Australia for the same reason. LAI assembled all the parts locally to avoid the taxes.
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Edit: IPDB posted the same stuff at the same time. 
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