This news will definitely be a good one for the people who have got ipad from us may be through their friends or through some dealers.But even after buying device you would have been finding difficult to download things as AppStore was also available only in US.
As you will be aware that apple has started taking preorders from many countries like UK, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, and Switzerland following which the App Store went live with all the above countries.Though the news was gathered by Engadget its still not released from Apple.But if this going to be the information from Apple then its sure that all the above countries will be definitely seeing the updates about the local iPad App store
So if you are struggling to get for US iTunes Store account then actually you need not from now on.
You can now purchase and download apps for the device from your local iPad App Store.