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40 April 2018 | AutoData INVESTMENTS » JAC MOTORS mises to charge the amount not collected in court. “What he [Habib] got there in Goiás I do not know, but I know he will have a lot of work to materialize this announcement”, the governor warned. On that day of 2012, the one of goats and baby goats, Jac Motors buried in the same area of the Camaçari factory a J3 that would be unearthed as a time capsule in 2032, twenty years later. Neither did it work: given the litigation with the Bahian government the vehicle was already dug up last year. It is still in the company’s pos- session, but its fate is uncertain. In Parallel Jac Motors still has to deal with another serious charge, of MDIC, Mi- nistry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Servi- ces. That’s because in 2013 the company became Inovar-Auto as an investor and thus received a quota of half the factory’s capacity to import J3 and J2 - using the same model platform that would be ma- nufactured here - without the incidence of IPI increased by 30 percentage points. Faced with the changes in Jac Motors’ plans, MDIC did not renew the license for 2014 and canceled it definitively in 2016. It charges, in addition to the increased IPI for each car that entered the countrywith exemption, fines. Asked by AutoData, the MDIC revea- led in a note that “Jac Motors filed a writ of mandamus with the Superior Court of Justice, STJ, which suspended, until a fi- nal decision, the effects of the Ministry’s decree dealing with the collection of tax benefits received under the Inovar-Auto Program. The final decision has not yet been handed down”. AU REVOIR While debating the two debts invol- ving Jac Motors at SHC, this March saw its long-term partnership with PSA Peugeot Citroën end. So, Habibwill no longer com- mercialize vehicles of the French brands - he was the first representative of Citroën in Brazil, at the time by his company de- nominated XM. According to Grupo SHC, the twelve Citroën and two Peugeot stores still in their hands will receive the Jac Motors flag. PSA confirmed in a statement that it is analyzing how it will now serve the places where the SHC Group was active. According to the manufacturer there is no intention to reduce the size of the network after the disruption, “taking into account the recovery of the Brazilian market”. New stores, therefore, should be delivered to other groups to occupy the space left by Habib. The partnership made by SHC and Ci- troën started in 1991. Sérgio Habib mana- ged to own a third of the manufacturer’s network in the country and held the company’s presidency from 2000 to 2008. Faced with this complex picture, the- refore, many doubts remain as to where and how the grasswould be plantedwhich could feed the goats and baby goats of Jac Motors. The risk is that the time passes so long that, by then the baby goat may have already become a huge goat. The J3 Time Capsule has not understand anything until now: containing several items from 2012 for revelation only in 2032, it was unearthed 15 years before