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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-11-040769
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20110726

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000749098
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS & ACCESSORIES [3714]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		337 MAGNA DRIVE
		STREET 2:		N/A
		CITY:			AURORA, ONTARIO, CAN
		STATE:			A6
		ZIP:			L4G 7K1
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9057262462

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		337 MAGNA DRIVE
		STREET 2:		N/A
		CITY:			AURORA, ONTARIO, CAN
		STATE:			A6
		ZIP:			L4G 7K1
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Magna International Inc.</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">337 Magna Drive</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Aurora, Ontario, Canada L4G 7K1</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Tel&nbsp;&nbsp;(905) 726-2462</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">July&nbsp;26, 2011</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">United States Securities and Exchange Commission</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">100 F Street, N.E.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Washington, D.C.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">20549</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Attention:&#160; Ms.&nbsp;Lyn Shenk</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">RE:</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Magna International Inc.</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 55.0pt;text-indent:-19.0pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Form&nbsp;40-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2010</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 55.0pt;text-indent:-19.0pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Filed March&nbsp;31, 2011</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 55.0pt;text-indent:-19.0pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">File No.&nbsp;001-11444</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Lyn:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Thank you for your letter dated June&nbsp;28, 2011 providing comments on Magna International Inc.&#146;s (&#147;Magna&#148; or the &#147;Company&#148;) Form&nbsp;40-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2010. Set forth below are the Company&#146;s responses to your comments. For your convenience, we have reproduced each of your comments in the order provided, followed by the Company&#146;s corresponding response.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Form&nbsp;40-F for Fiscal Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2010</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Exhibit&nbsp;2</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Results of Operations, page&nbsp;17</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">1.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">We note your disclosure regarding the changes in factors such as vehicle production volumes and average dollar content per vehicle. In addition to providing these disclosures, please revise to quantify the aggregate impacts of these changes on revenues. For example, please revise to quantify the actual dollar amount of aggregate revenue change during the period attributed to a change in vehicle production volumes. Please provide us with your proposed revised disclosure.</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.25pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We note your comment. However, in order to gather the necessary information to comply, the Company will need to make certain changes to financial reporting systems and processes.&#160; We will continue to work with the SEC staff in this regard and in future MD&amp;A, we will continue our efforts to provide further quantitative information about factors that have had a material impact on reported revenue and other significant performance measures.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">2.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">When two or more factors are cited to which changes are attributable, please quantify each factor so that readers may understand the magnitude of each. For example, in the discussion of &#147;external production sales-rest of the world&#148; for 2010 and 2009 you attribute the sales increase to five different factors, offset by two other factors, without quantification of any of the factors. Refer to section 501.04 of the Codification of Financial Reporting Releases for guidance. Please provide us with your proposed revised disclosure.</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.25pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We note your comment. In future MD&amp;A, we will attempt to provide further quantitative information about factors that have had a material impact on reported revenue and other significant performance measures.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.25pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Discussion of the change in &#147;External production sales &#151; Rest of the World&#148; in the Company&#146;s future MD&amp;A will be expanded as follows (the illustration below is based on the Company&#146;s first quarter 2011 MD&amp;A):</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.25pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">External Production Sales &#151; Rest of World</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.25pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">External production sales in Rest of World increased 69% or $129 million to $316 million for the first quarter of 2011 compared to $187 million for the first quarter of 2010. The increase in production sales is primarily as a result of:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 35.45pt;text-indent:-14.15pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">acquisitions completed during or subsequent to the first quarter of 2010 including Resil Minas, Pabsa S.A. and a roof systems facility in Japan, <b><u style="font-weight:bold;">which positively impacted sales by $57 million</u></b>;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 35.45pt;text-indent:-14.15pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">the launch of new programs during or subsequent to the first quarter of 2010 in China and Brazil;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 35.45pt;text-indent:-14.15pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">an increase in production on certain programs in China and India; and</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 35.45pt;text-indent:-14.15pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">an increase in reported U.S. dollar sales as a result of the strengthening of the Chinese Renminbi and Brazilian real, each against the U.S. dollar.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">3.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Please quantify, discuss, and analyze the changes in costs of goods sold in addition to your current disclosure which is made in the context of gross margin. Please quantify and discuss the significant components of costs of sales, such as labor, materials, or any other components, to the extent changes in these components had a material impact on reported results. Please provide us with your proposed revised disclosure.</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.3pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We note your comment.&#160; The Company will amend future filings to analyse the costs of goods sold line item as reported in its consolidated financial statements.&#160; However, we recognize that judgment is required in determining the level of quantitative detail necessary to ensure the Company&#146;s performance is adequately explained. In future MD&amp;A, we will endeavour to provide further quantitative information about specific factors when such data is</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.3pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">reliable and has a material impact to understanding the Company&#146;s key financial performance measures.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.25pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Discussion of the change in &#147;Cost of Goods Sold&#148; in the Company&#146;s future MD&amp;A will be revised as follows (the illustration below is based on the Company&#146;s first quarter 2011 MD&amp;A):</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 21.3pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">These factors were partially offset by:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 35.45pt;text-indent:-14.15pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">lower costs incurred related to launches at our complete vehicle assembly operations; and</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 35.45pt;text-indent:-14.15pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">productivity and efficiency improvements at certain facilities.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As requested in your letter dated June&nbsp;28, 2011, the Company acknowledges that:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Members of the Magna International Inc. Audit   Committee</font></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Vince Galifi, Executive Vice-President and   Chief Financial Officer</font></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Don Linsdell, Ernst&nbsp;&amp; Young LLP</font></p>    </td>   </tr>  </table>
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