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Mexico's Customs Office
1900s continued
In 1951, the Código
Aduanero (Customs Code) was published, and stayed in force until 1982,
throughout the period of the substitution of imports. This Code indicated the
locations in which one could carry out the introduction or extraction of
merchandise; the exceptional cases regarding commerce with certain countries,
the special requirements and the things which were prohibited, along with the
documentation necessary for the operation; in addition, it listed the products
subject to Customs duties.
With the publication of the Ley Orgánica
de la Administración Pública Federal (Organic Law of Federal Public
Administration), on December 29, 1976., a new Reglamento Interior de la
Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (Domestic Internal Regulation of
the Treasury and Public Credit Secretariat) was published on May 23, 1977.,
bringing together the Sub-secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit; the
Sub-secretary of Incomes and the Sub -secretary for Fiscal Inspection, to which
were attached the Dirección General de Aduanas (General Customs
Management); the Oficialía Mayor (Chief Clerk's Office); the
Procuraduría Fiscal de la Federación (Fiscal Attorney's Office of the
Federation) and the Tesorería de la Federación (Treasurer of the
Federation).
Mexico became a member of the General Agreement on Customs
Taxes and Trade
(GATT) in 1986, and in May of 1988 became a member of the
Consejo de Cooperación Aduanera - CCA (Customs Cooperation Council),
which was formed to harmonize and facilitate international trade.
On
January 25, 1993., the name of the
Dirección General de Aduanas
(General Customs Management) was changed to Administración General de
Aduanas (General Customs Administration) and the jurisdiction of 45 Customs
offices was established throughout the country.
As of July 1, 1997., the
Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT) was created, which was also
attached to the General Customs Administration.
{mospagebreak title=2000)
Mexico's Customs Office
In the year 2000
Given the opening up
of the export market which came to the fore in the last decade, the idea is to
provide the Customs service where the commercial demand is greatest, for which
reason contact has been established with the Industrial Chambers of the country
so as to understand the export and import needs of the manufacturing industry /
industrial production sector of the country. With the objective of facilitating
operations through a program of control methods, the Sistema Automatizado
Aduanero Integral - SAAI (Integral Automated Customs System) was
implemented, commonly known as the fiscal traffic lights.
Regarding the facilitation of international waiting rooms for passengers,
the fiscal traffic lights were substituted by a mechanism which automatically determines if a
luggage search will be carried out or not, thus improving the detection of
undeclared merchandise.
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