Draft release: Imported and exported merchandise subject to regulation by agencies that make up the inter-ministerial commission (CICOPLAFEST)

Commission for Regulatory Improvement (CONAMER)

The purpose of this Draft is to establish the tariff fractions of the merchandise that will be subject to regulation by the Inter-secretarial Commission for the Control of the Process and Use of Pesticides, Fertilizers and Toxic Substances, whose compliance must be accredited to the competent authorities and Replace / repeal the Agreement that establishes the classification and codification of merchandise whose import and export is subject to regulation by the agencies that make up the Inter-secretarial Commission for the Control of the Process and Use of Pesticides, Fertilizers and Toxic Substances, published in the Journal Official of the Federation on April 12, 2013.

VALIDITY: This Agreement will enter into force on December 28, 2020.

The documents that have been issued in accordance with the regulations that by virtue of this instrument are repealed, will continue to be applied until their expiration in the terms in which they were issued, and may continue to be used for the purposes for which they were issued, provided that the description of the merchandise indicated in the corresponding document matches the merchandise presented to the customs authority.

Regarding the correspondence between the tariff fractions, this will be in accordance with the Correlation Tables issued by the Ministry of Economy, between the tariff fractions in force until December 27, 2020 and those in force as of December 28, 2020.

Non-Tariff Regulations and Restrictions:

• The goods classified in the tariff fractions listed in paragraphs a), b) and c) of Annex I of this Agreement, must comply with the regulation indicated in the Annex itself, issued by the corresponding agency, if they are destined to the regimes of definitive import, temporary import and fiscal deposit.

• When the export regime is withdrawn, the merchandise must not comply with the regulations applicable to import, provided that the merchandise has not left the national territory; in the case of merchandise 8 of foreign origin, that is not going to remain in national territory, it must comply with the export regulations, which may apply. • The goods listed in Annex I of this Agreement, which have been temporarily imported for elaboration, transformation or repair in maquila or export programs and are to be transferred, will not apply the provisions of this Agreement, provided that they have complied with with the regulation at the time of importation into the national territory, and in case of making the change of regime to definitive, the corresponding sanitary authorizations must be complied with, in case of their commercialization, but they must comply with the corresponding sanitary authorizations, in case of its commercialization.

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