Originally posted by durrelllrobert
From the MX Customs Declaration
This is your Personal BAGGAGE Allowance
BAGGAGE AND DUTY FREE ALLOWANCE
Passengers may transport, exempt duty, new or used merchandises that make up their personal baggage as well as duty-free allowance merchandises:
1) Goods considered as personal baggage: Goods for personal use such as clothes - including one bride trousseau, footwear and personal toiletries and
beauty products, `as long as they are appropriate for the duration of the trip; as well as baby travel, hygiene and fun accessories, such as car seat,
portacrib, baby carriage, baby walker, etc., including their accessories; two cameras or video cameras, including 12 rolls of film or video cassettes;
photographic material; two cellular phones or beepers or pagers; one portable typewriter; one personal organizer; one laptop, notebook, omnibook or
similar; one portable photocopier or printer; one portable recorder and one projector, including accessories; two personal sports equipments, four
fishing rods, three surfboards or wind surfing boards and their accessories, trophys or recognitions that can normally be transported by the
passenger; one running machine and one exercise bike; one portable sound recorder or player;; one digital sound player or portable CD player and one
DVD player, as well as a set of portable speakers and their accessories; five laser discs, 10 DVDs, 30 CDs or magnetic tapes, for sound playing,,
three storage software and 5 storage devices for any electronic equipment; books, magazines and printed documents; five toys, including collection
toys, and one video game console, as well as five video games; one blood pressure self-monitoring device and one blood glucose self-monitoring device,
or a mixed device, and their reagents, as well as personal medicine (in the event of psycotropic substances, passenger must show prescription); one
binoculars and one telescope; two musical instruments and their accessories; one tent and other camping articles; one set of hand tools and the
suitcase, which may include one drill, tweezers, wrenches, dies, screwdrivers, cables, etc.
Passengers over 18 years may transport up to 20 cigarette packets, 25 cigars or 200 grams of tobacco, as well as up to 3 liters of alcoholic dinks
and six liters of wine.
Old persons and disabled persons may transport devices that compensate or reduce their limitations, such as walkers, wheelchairs, crutches, walking
sticks, etc.
Passengers may transport up to two dogs or cats, as well as the accessories necessary for pet transportation and cleaning, showing the pertinent
animal importing permit issued by Sagarpa
This is your DUTY FREE allowance
Merchandise additional to the baggage , which monetary value may be proved by invoice or sales receipt and such value doies not exceed 300 USD, or
the equivalent in MXN currency when passenger enters mexico by maritime or air port; or 75 USD when passenger enters to Mexico by land. Alcholic
drinks, tobaccos and gasoline may not be part of the duty-free allowance.
During holiday period, Holy Week, summer, New Year, Mexican passengers entering Mexico by land may import, under their duty-free allowance,
merchandise with a value of up to 300 USD or the equivalent in MXN currency, except for persons that reside in the border. Pleas look up for the
begining and end of these holiday periods at customs desk or at www.aduandas.gob.mx.
"TAX PAYMENTS
Passengers may import merchandises other then their personal baggage without hiring a customs broker, paying the general tax of 16%, provided that
the total value of the merchandises, excluding the duty-free allowance, does not exceed 3000 USD or the equivalent in MXN currency, and provided that
the passenger has the invoice or sales receipt, or any other document expressing the commercial value of the merchandise. Taxes may by paid by
internet at www.banjercito.com.mx or www.aduanas.gob.mx completing the form"Payment of Foreign Trade Duties", or through the automatic centers.
- Value of computer equipment, together with the rest of the merchandises, must not exceed 4000 USD or the equivalent in other currencies.
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