Foreign Trade
- Usage of DIMSA’s web-based Annex 24 software.
- Assist with bill of materials, HTS Codes, importation, and exportation legal requirements.
- IMMEX, PROSEC, VAT Certification Programs application and Compliance on a monthly basis.
- Analysis of Origin for exportations.
Supply chain and materials management is a key element in any manufacturing enterprise. In most cases, your project will require international sourcing of materials (southbound shipments) and/or Northbound logistics of finished goods to countries outside of Mexico.
n these cases, Mexico has temporary import programs such as PROSEC, which can reduce inherent import duties impact on your operations.
In order to apply for and successfully maintain legal / fiscal compliance in these programs deployment, unique certified software and customs practices must be implemented, managed and audited.
DIMSA’s in-house expertise in Mexican Foreign Trade management services assures that you consistently have optimal results in legal compliance.
We achieve this by our use of proven and proficient deployment systems, proprietary software and best practices by on-sight and off-sight personnel, resulting in our costumers having a top dollar department at a competitive cost in comparison to the alternative of in-house personnel.
Pre-operational Phase:
Proper customs and logistics planning and implementation are crucial to your business success and affect your projects bottom line. Selecting the most appropriate import programs or combination of programs plays a role in creating materials related competitiveness.
DIMSA’s experts in customs play a key role in guiding and assisting you in choosing the best alternatives to fit your business needs based on your initial phase through final phase requirements.
Our in-house expertise in customs procedures and therefore, compliance, legislation and practices can result in substantial savings to your business logistics impact compared to using “off the shelf” practices. Determining equipment customs status, MRO sourcing, and best importation practices are all contingent upon your unique short term and long term project needs.
DIMSA’s service includes:
- Information needed to evaluate preferential duties when importing / exporting to México.
- Determine best programs, submit and obtain temporary import permits.
- Assistance in selecting:
- Mexican & US customs brokers.
- Inform any special requirement needed to import merchandise into México.
- Request country of origin certificates.
- Evaluate applicability of potential USMCA and other Mexico Free Trade agreements advantages.
- Establish software and data networking to be used by customs control.
- Strategic Planning Support and Guidance to senior management
Operational Phase:
Once optimum customs strategies have been implemented, the highest contingency related to the day-to-day functions resides in opportune expediting and coordination of all involved service providers & paper work and correct and complete reporting and temporary inventory control (customs and materials control).
Nonconformity of statutory customs control is unobservable in the short term but may cause major economical liabilities through lack of detection of small inconsistencies over time.
DIMSA’s integrated operational systems, proprietary software, process methods and periodic internal audit practice assures that customs control activities are executed correctly, on time and with check loops that guarantees the reduction of potential long term customs liabilities.
Activities include:
- Control of all Import & Export balances (cycle counting iterations to assure correctness of temp. import balances).
- Permit benefits (If applicable).
- Submit official reports to authorities.
- Data entry and maintenance of Customs software database.
- Maintaining of import export declarations archives.
- Periodic audits of archives and Import/Export procedures compliance.
- Generation of periodic indicators for upper management.
- Periodic meetings with senior management.