The top 10 customs in Mexico covered 75% of the total value of operations in 2019.
Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana led the first positions in this classification.
With the world’s most dynamic border, between Mexico and the United States, and a network of 13 free trade agreements with 50 nations, Mexico’s customs play a crucial role in the Mexican economy.
Other prominent customs offices in 2019 were: Manzanillo, Veracruz, Ciudad Reynosa, Colombia, Piedras Negras, Altamira and the International Airport of Mexico City.
Largest customs in Mexico in 2019
As a panoramic idea of the dynamism of the border, 211,000 cars, 17,000 trucks, 449 buses, and 31 trains (carrying 1,400 full containers) crossed into the United States from Mexico each day of 2018, on average.
Mexico customs
Mexico uses an economic development model based on increasing its foreign trade returns. To do so, the country focuses mainly on expanding its total exports through various commercial, fiscal, financial and promotional measures to grow and increase the competitiveness of its non-oil exports.
The top 10 customs in Mexico reported an operations value of 13.22 trillion pesos in 2019, according to data from the Ministry of Economy.
For several decades, Mexico’s foreign trade policy has focused on removing barriers to foreign trade, which has resulted in an increase in Mexican non-oil exports and has increased the importance of manufactured products in relation to agricultural products.
The country’s Foreign Trade Law gives the President broad powers to establish import and export tariffs, as well as other trade restrictions.
This law also created the Foreign Trade Commission, an agency that operates within the Ministry of Economy and is authorized to resolve disputes related to trade and establish procedures for the imposition of countervailing duties, which are import duties imposed under the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to neutralize the effect of a foreign country’s subsidy on its exports.
Furthermore, the Foreign Trade Law defines and regulates unfair commercial practices, thus aligning Mexico’s regulatory commercial framework more closely with current international practices and standards.
