ARTICLE 90: CLEARANCE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS, MERCHANDISE AND LUGGAGE OF DIPLOMATICS AND FOREIGN CONSULTATIONS

The importation of household goods or merchandise other than luggage, travel objects or personal use, property of the members of the diplomatic, consular, or special missions abroad, must be carried out in all cases by means of customs declaration (pedimento). (RGCE 2022: Apendice 8) (RGCE 2022: Regla 1.3.1)

Personal luggage that are introduce or extract from national territory, ambassadors, plenipotentiary ministers, business managers, counselors, secretaries and incorporated from the foreign diplomatic or special missions, consuls and vice consuls, as well as their spouse, parents and children, will not be subject to the Automated Selection Mechanism or revision (RGCE 2022: Regla 3.2.8), provided there is international reciprocity.

When there are well-founded reasons to assume that personal luggage contains objects whose import or export is prohibited (RLA: Art. 229) or subject to regulations and non-tariff restrictions in accordance with national legislation, the Customs Authority may only carry out the corresponding review prior notice to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores). (LA: Art. 30) (LA: Art. 61)