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Requirements to import into Mexico
Requirements to import into Mexico
People who wish to import merchandise are obligated to:
- To be registered in the importers' registry and, if applicable, in the Register of Importers of Specific Sectors in charge of the Service tax administration, for which purpose they must be up to date in the compliance of their tax obligations, prove before the customs authorities that they are registered in the Federal taxpayer registration and comply with the other requirements established by the Customs Law Regulations and those established by the Service tax administration through general foreign trade rules.
- To maintain automated inventory control systems that keep an updated record of the control data of foreign trade goods at all times, which must be available to the customs authority.
- Obtain the information, documentation and other means of proof necessary to verify the country of origin of the merchandise for the purposes of tariff preferences, country of origin marking, application of compensatory quotas, quotas and other measures established in accordance with the Foreign Trade Law and international treaties to which Mexico is a party, and provide them to the customs authorities when required.
- Deliver to the customs broker or customs agent that promotes the clearance of the goods a written declaration, under oath, with the elements that allow the determination of the customs value of the goods. The importer must keep a copy of such declaration, obtain the information, documentation and other evidence necessary to prove that the declared value has been determined in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Customs Law and provide them to the customs authorities when required.
- Those who introduce goods from the national territory to be destined to a customs regime are obliged to transmit by means of an electronic document to the customs authorities the information related to their value and, if applicable, other data related to their commercialization, prior to their customs clearance, under the terms and conditions established by the Service tax administration through general rules for foreign trade, which will be understood as transmitted once the corresponding acknowledgment issued by the electronic customs system is generated. The acknowledgment must be declared in the customs declaration, for the effects of article 36 of this Customs Law and other applicable provisions.
- Electronically register before the General Customs Administration the document by means of which the assignment is conferred to the customs agents to act as their consignees or agents and to carry out their operations, using the electronic format called "Assignment conferred to the customs agent to carry out foreign trade operations or revocation of the same".
- Those who introduce or extract goods from the national territory destined to a customs regime, are obliged to transmit, through the electronic customs system, in an electronic document to the customs authorities, a customs declaration with information regarding the mentioned goods, under the terms and conditions established by the Service tax administration through rules, using the advanced electronic signature or digital seal, and must provide a printout of the customs declaration with the corresponding information, which will have the barcode printed on it.
- Pay foreign trade taxes.
- Pay, if applicable, antidumping duties, as well as comply with other obligations regarding non-tariff regulations and restrictions and the formalities for their dispatch.
Customs clearance includes all the acts and formalities related to the entry of goods into and exit from the national territory, which in accordance with the different traffic and customs regimes established in the Customs Law, must be carried out before customs, the customs authorities and those who introduce or extract goods from the national territory, whether consignees, consignees, owners, possessors or holders in imports and shippers in exports, as well as customs agents or representatives, using the electronic customs system.
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