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Mexico's Customs Office
In the 1800s
The first legal document of the
independent Mexico was the Arancel General Interno (General Domestic
Internal Customs Duty) for the Governors of the Maritime Customs Agencies
regarding Free Trade within the Empire, published on December 15, 1821. In this
document they designated the ports which were authorized to handle commercial
activity, they outlined the work to be undertaken by Customs administrators, the
Customs controllers and the Customs officers; moreover, they outlined the basis
for all the tax operations, establishing that the types of merchandise, the
merchandise which was prohibited from being imported and those free of tax
should be decided by the customs administrators.
In 1821, the Customs
Department was under the control of the Secretary of State and the Treasury
Office.
In the year 1831, Mexico signed a Treaty of Armistice with the
United States of America, one of the first agreements regarding international
commerce.
By presidential decree, the Mexican Customs Agency was created
in 1884 and was installed, on May 8, in the old building of the Casa de
Contratación and the Royal Customs House in Santo Domingo square.
On
March 1, 1887., a new
Ordenanza General de Aduanas Marítimas y Fronterizas
(General Ordinance By-law of the Maritime and Border Customs) was issued
with two annexes: in the first, the general tariff appeared in separate form,
while the second contained the rules for the application of the
tariff.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 December 2009 )
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