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37 AutoData | March 2019 Agility in the transfer of ICMS credits in Parana put T-Cross on the global exports map Disclosure/VW Europe will receive the SUV, a project slightly different from the one sold in the European market: “Algeria, Egypt and Turkey will be some of the destinations”. That decision was possible thanks to some peculiarities of the factory in Sao Jose dos Pinhais, which completes twen- ty years of operation. According to the president of Volkswagen South America, the proximity and logistical ease with the port of Paranagua and the ICMS credit transfers program of Parana’s govern- ment, much more agile than in Sao Paulo, collaborated to put the factory on the export map. Also contributing is that the T-Cross is a global Volkswagen project, which sees the future of the industry in the SUV segment in the short-term, before the electrification. During the global presen- tation at the end of last October - and simultaneously in Amsterdam, Holland, Sao Paulo and Shanghai, China - the com- pany presented projections that pointed to SUVs as the responsible for 40% of its global sales in the future. IN BRAZIL Although being global, the Brazilian model was adapted to local consumer demands. Assembled on the MQB pla-