Question: Our biggest Mexican distributor has us bill to them in Mexico and ship to their warehouse in Pharr, TX (same entity name). They have never requested an SED(previously) or anything they will need do an AES filing. The only thing they request and we provide are our invoices which have the necessary schedule b […]
Question: We have a Permanent Establishment (PE) in Mexico and sell our branded products in Mexico. These products are manufactured locally by a co-pack partner. We are considering exporting this product from MX to various points in the Caribbean. We have obtained preliminary/basic export advice (customs broker, export filings, export taxes, recordkeeping, fines/penalties etc..) from […]
Question: As we are in the process of getting our five Mexican suppliers established in the C-TPAT program, we’re interested in what folks experienced during their Mexican C-TPAT validations: Did CBP focus on the carriers more than the facilities? Did CBP want the carriers/forwarders/brokers available (present) at the validation? How long after certification […]
Question: We have an IMMEX in Mexico and the broker for this plant is telling us one of our products should be classified as 9026.80 and here in the US, we have classified it as 9026.20. We do not have a formal classification, but we have asked our outside law firm and US broker […]
Question: We export to a variety of customers in Mexico, all of whom seem to want to use their own customs broker. With exports to other countries, we instruct our freight forwarder to turn over the freight to the broker upon arrival at the destination. However, with Mexico this poses more of a challenge due […]
Question: A sister company sold a manufacturing system to a Mexican company. However, they outsourced the installation and other services necessary to make the system operational to 2 other Mexican companies. The invoices received from these 2 service companies reflected substantial additional lines for IVA. It is my understanding that IVA is similar to […]
As we are in the process of getting our five Mexican suppliers established in the C-TPAT program, we’re interested in what folks experienced during their Mexican C-TPAT validations: Did CBP focus on the carriers more than the facilities? Did CBP want the carriers/forwarders/brokers available (present) at the validation? How long after certification did […]
Question: We are in the process of closing a US plant and moving all the production equipment etc to Mexico and are having a high rate of inspections which has caused some damage to tools and delays. We normally ship product to Mexico weekly without issue – does anyone have an idea why the […]
Question: We are in the process of closing a US plant and moving all the production equipment etc to Mexico and are having a high rate of inspections which has caused some damage to tools and delays. We normally ship product to Mexico weekly without issue – does anyone have an idea why the […]
Question: Does anyone know of a free web based resource where I can access the HTS tariff for MX? Or has a copy of the change record for 2009 (if any changes have been made), I can’t find anything that is FREE!
I would like to know where I can find more information regarding the customs requirements in Mexico, for materials which required any individually serialized product to be auditable by Mexico customs to ensure that what was being brought in (according to the paperwork) correlated to the actual product. As I vaguely recall, the serial number […]
Seeking advice. We are a U.S. subsidiary of a multinational, incorporated in Europe with worldwide operations. We have a current U.S. customer with a subsidiary in Mexico that wants to buy from us. The mill we would supply both U.S. and Mexico is in Mexico. My understanding is a U.S. company cannot be Importer of […]
