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ARTICLES

LEGAL RESOURSES

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    • ARTICLE 18: DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY THE CAPTAIN OF THE VESSEL

     

    The captain of the vessel that receives cargo or passengers abroad to transport them to the country must transmit them to the Customs Authority in the Electronic Document (LA: Art. 2) or Digital (LA: Art. 2), in the terms and conditions established by the Service Tax Administration (Servicio de Administración Tributaria) (RLA: Art. 1) by Rules (RGCE 2022: Regla 1.9.8), the following documents:

  • Statement for each of the Mexican ports to which the cargo is destined (RGCE 2022: Regla 3.1.7);

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  • List, for each port, of the passengers that they transport, expressing the quantity and class of packages that constitute the luggage of each one, with the exception of those in hand;

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  • Crew list and declaration of their Merchandise, for each port, and

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  • List by each port, of the packages that contain explosive, flammable, corrosive, contaminating or radioactive merchandise, where appropriate.

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    Errors or deficiencies in the Electronic or Digital Documents must be remedied within twenty-four hours after the landing of the Merchandise through their retransmission to the Customs Electronic System. (RLA: Art. 1)

    The Service Tax Administration (Servicio de Administración Tributaria) will establish through Rules, the cases in which the errors or deficiencies in the Electronic or Digital Documents will be corrected in the cases in which the Automated Selection Mechanism has been activated.

    The obligation that is imposed in the first paragraph of this article on the captain of the vessel is without prejudice to that of the carrier companies and their representatives.