QUESTION: Does anyone have an SOP for southern border brokerage for shipments to related entities that they would consider sharing? I am looking for help developing a process to smooth communication with the MX broker. Right now, every shipment is an issue because the MX broker disagrees with my classifications on my commercial documents which […]
QUESTION: Mexican entity(buyer) purchases goods in the US for import into Mexico. Mexican entity contracts with a Mexican Customs broker to execute the necessary steps in the import process. (creation of the pedimentos, etc..) The Mexican Customs broker physically sits in Laredo, Texas where he executes the Mexican customs business on behalf of […]
QUESTION: Mexican entity(buyer) purchases goods in the US for import into Mexico. Mexican entity contracts with a Mexican Customs broker to execute the necessary steps in the import process. (creation of the pedimento, etc..) The Mexican Customs broker physically sits in Laredo, Texas where he executes the Mexican customs business on behalf of the Mexican […]
QUESTION: We have a Mexican National who we would like to assign to work on ITAR and EAR controlled parts. She is our LEAN representative. We have determined we will need both state and commerce licenses. For the state license, would I need to submit a DSP-5 request for each customer and their part numbers […]
QUESTION: Scenario: US company purchase goods from other US companies and have the freight sent to Laredo, TX. Then their is a stock transfer from US company in Laredo TX to Mexico Sister Company in Mexico. The broker will consolidate shipments at their warehouse in Laredo, TX and the company in Mexico will prepare paperwork. […]
QUESTION: Does anyone in the membership have any information about new requirement for the commercial invoice for shipment to Mexico to have the Tax ID of the foreign suppliers? Any guidance as far as when this was effective and the respective rule, is appreciated. ========== Answers: It went into effect last year. We created a […]
QUESTION: Corrected blanket NAFTA certification for a previous year to support Mexican pedimentos My US-based company issued a 2016 NAFTA certification to our related Mexican Importer prior to a corporate restructuring and change in the US IRS number in September of 2016. I issued a 2017 blanket NAFTA in January of 2017 with the new […]
QUESTION: Can the membership advise where I would find the import duties for goods into Mexico? I am specifically looking to get the duty rates that were imposed prior to implementing NAFTA. ========== Answers: The Mexican tariff schedule can be found on line (in Spanish) here: http://www.siicex-caaarem.org.mx/ ========== There are content providers that have tariff […]
QUESTION: We have a couple of Mexican customers that are insisting the NAFTA certificate needs to be manually signed and will not accept our “electronic” signature. The signature is basically a scan of the manual signature that is then applied to the NAFTA certificate. In this technologically advanced era, I just can’t imagine every single […]
QUESTION: We recently purchased fabric from Mexico that meets NAFTA qualifications. We were not the importer in the US. The fabric is dyed fabric that has the appearance of more than one color. The fabric is 100% polyester filament. The Mexican supplier provided a NAFTA certificate showing the tariff code as 5407.52 which is […]
QUESTION: Can I get details on how IMMEX and Maquiladora operations work from the US compliance point of view? If US company USA, Inc exports previously imported goods to MX company Immex Co, then what record keeping requirements do you have in place for USA, Inc.? We are looking at EAR99 machinery, nothing fancy. When […]
QUESTION: Does anyone have an SOP for importing into Mexico and exporting from Mexico they could share that addresses classification, valuation and record keeping? ************* Answers: For this Topic the first question that must be asked is whether you are utilizing a Maquiladora or not; this changes many things, such as US import Valuation (as only […]
