Question: We have a shipment that being shipped by truck to Mexico. The goods are under $2500 (NLR) so there is no AES filing. We are told that we need a US broker to “clear” the shipment on the US side. Would one of the members be able to explain why we need a US […]
Question: How do I deal with Mexican brokers who disagree with and refute information I know is correct, right down to HTS numbers. We have a related company in Mexico that does some assembly and we send them parts weekly. They ask us for HTS and NAFTA data for items we send, but the Mexican […]
Question: Effective Jan. 15, 2016, Article 81 of Mexican Customs Law establishes the requirement for a Mexican Importer of Record to provide documented support of the valuation of imported merchandise to the Mexican Customs Broker. One of the required documents is “contracts related to the purchase of the goods”. Can this requirement be satisfied with […]
Question: Does anyone have a job description for an IMMEX Program Manager that would be domiciled at the Mexican factory of a U.S. company to oversee compliance to the regulations as well as transactional process oversight. If you don’t have a job description to share, please consider responding with your opinion of the responsibilities […]
Question: Do Mexico and Canada have Reconciliation programs similar to that of the US? Specifically, I am wondering what the procedures/process are available for imports into Canada and Mexico in cases where only provisional values are available at the time of import and will likely change a couple of months after entry. ========== Answers: Canada […]
Question: International shipment coming to the U.S. moved in transit bond down to Mexico facility for repair. After repair can the equipment be returned to the U.S. from Mexico for export back to the international customer using 9802 after repair when it was processed into the U.S. originally by bond? *************** Answers: Yes, it can […]
Question: We have a subsidiary that has a maquiladora in Mexico. I deliver export compliance training to all employees in our facility and every subsidiary and assist with creating the ecp for each location. How do I find out what the export requirements are for the Mexican facility, or because they are a maquiladora do […]
Question: Is anyone in the membership experiencing frustrations with obtaining import permits into Mexico? (“Aviso Automatico ante la Secretaria de Economia”, etc) Items that we used to import all the time (rig safety harnesses, steel fittings, etc) are now being denied. Is there a secret or is this problem wider than I think? ********* […]
Question: Our company ships product from our U.S plant to our Mexican brokers facility in Laredo TX, where they cut the seal, unload the trailer, inspect product specifically looking for any type of discrepancy and reload a trailer that moves the product from Laredo TX delivering to our plant in MX. I have several […]
Question: Are there any restrictions on importing CN origin products into MX ? ========== Answer: There have been some very high countervailing duties on CN products into MX. Some over 500% of the value plus the regular duty.
Question: My company sold and exported, from the U.S. to Mexico, a shipment of printed label material. The customer in Mexico later advised the labels did not meet quality standards. We agreed to produce and ship new labels to the customer and requested that the old labels be returned to our company in the U.S. […]
Question: Situation: I work for a US company with a subsidiary in Mexico (via a Maquiladora). Our Mexico subsidiary is an electronics contract manufacturer. The Mexico subsidiary is considering shipping (automotive design-specific) sub-assemblies to Brazil where the sub assemblies would be integrated into automotive assemblies. To qualify for the ALADI program – free […]
