He delay of up to 40 days for the authorization of automatic customs notices that issues the Ministry of Economy to the import of steel and other products to the country, adds costs of 800 million pesos to importers so far in 2025, warns the customs firm STAcomex.
This delay is generating cost overruns of 4,500 pesos per day for each container stranded at customs, which will increase the price of goods, they warn.
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Every day, around 50 operations (shipping arrivals) with hundreds of containers are detained awaiting a resolutionwhich shoots up storage costsand these delays will end up making the entry of goods more expensive and at the same time will begin to slow down investment.
Logistics operates with 7 days, but in practice it becomes a month and a half
Linda Núñezexpert in process optimization and CEO of the customs agency STAcomex, explained that from December to May, Importers spent around 800 million pesos on warehouses.
“Logistics operates with days off: 7 in port warehouse and two in air; in shipping companies, between seven and 21. But in practice those seven days become a month or a month and a half. for the authority to respond; The cost must be absorbed by the importer.”
“There will be hidden inflation that spreads through the textile, automotive and, of course, steel chains”, he detailed.
Emmanuel Mena, expert in international trade with 20 years in customs mattersspecified the importance of knowing the difference between notice and permission, since “the first is, in theory, a notification; the second, an authorization.
“In steel, the authority takes 20–30 days to respond, and it is not uncommon for the same container with five or six notices to obtain partial or negative resolutions due to minimal details,” he added.
“You present the notice and with your receipt stamp you go to customs and clear and import the merchandise. However, here With the steel issue, the authority takes 20 or 30 days to resolve”he added.
“What’s worse, if you suddenly bring a container where you processed five or six automatic notices and they resolve threeyou can’t move forward, because you are missing two and after 30 days they tell you: ‘Hey, the notice is wrong, the number is missing from the certificate’, and when you review the certificate you see that the number is there, ‘why did you reject it?’”.
‘There is no direct response, everything is by email’
Hazael Maldonadoa foreign trade consultant, warned that the window became distant, “there is no direct answer, everything is by emailwhile the requirements of the notices hardened and became squarer”. He explained that there is a slight delay in the issue of imports by the authority, “which in this case is the Ministry of Economy, derived from various factors.”
“The human factor weighs, since there are consecutive negative resolutions for different reasons, little possibility of correction and no real dialogue,” he added.
“There will be hidden inflation that will spread through chains such as textiles, automotive and steel”
LINDA NUÑEZ
CEO de STAcomex
“The approaches that have been had through Economy are null, everything is requested through emails”
HAZAEL MALDONADO
customs specialist
NUMBERS
4 mil
500 pesos a day pays for each container detained in ports
7 days
free ones they have in port warehouses, on the eighth they have to start paying
6
Notices must be authorized less for each container
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KEY POINTS
Excessive costs. The delay of weeks to wait for permits has a cost that importers are absorbing.
Increase in price. They warn of hidden inflation in merchandise entering the country this end of the year.
Steel industry affected. Metals sector, with a greater delay in notices.
THEY ARRIVE IN MICHOACÁN
Imports from Asia arrive mainly through the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán and the logistical disruption was aggravated by the strike of customs workers on May 12 in Manzanillo – estimated at losses of 150 million dollars – which led to the chronic saturation of that port.
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