Question: My Mexico office contacted me stating they have received an “invitation from the Economy Office” of the Mexican Gov’t to analyze if they (our MX company) could be certified as a C-TPAT company. Their invitation stated a visit would take 4 hours where government personnel would come an analyze the facility, have our MX […]
Question:We are considering moving production from the US to Canada to avoid the ongoing Mexican retaliatory duties yet maintain NAFTA status on the goods. We would engage a partner for one large production run – move the goods to the US for storage – then ship to Mexico as needed. Has the membership experienced any […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?
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 […]
