Mexico

Mexico

  • MX BROKERAGE

    Question: What the word on Mexican import brokers?  For years the differentforwarders/brokers we’ve used at the border have always had a MX broker theyworked with.  The Mexican broker was partnered with the Laredo company on abasis of using the MX broker’s registration/license for a fee.  Other thanusing a national forwarder, this is the “way” it […]

  • PEDIMENTO CORRECTIONS

    Question: What is the process for correcting qty discrepancies in pedimentos? Ihave a supplier that by mistake declared less ballasts than he shippedand now the 3PL that imported the ballasts in Mexico wants them to do adefinite importation and pay the 129% duty rate + other fees. It was anerror in the paperwork so I […]

  • MX IMPORT REPORT

    Question: Does anyone know if the Mexican Govt will provide a report to importerssimilar to an ITRAC or a FIRM report?  If so, how would I go aboutrequesting this?   Also, do they provide an export report?

  • MX DISTY WITH US WAREHOUSE AND EEIFILING

    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 […]

  • EXPORTING FROM MEXICO

    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 […]

  • MX CTPAT VALIDATIONS

    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 […]

  • HTS FOR MX

    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 […]

  • SOUTHERN BORDER PROCESS

    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 […]

  • IVA ON MX SERVICES

    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 […]

  • MX CTPAT VALIDATIONS

      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 […]

  • MX BORDER INSPECTIONS

    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 […]

  • MX BORDER INSPECTIONS

    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 […]