Overview

• The Chamber of Deputies passed the customs reform in a general vote, 338–129, with Morena and allies in favor and PAN, PRI and MC opposed, and the bill now proceeds to Senate review.
• The overhaul creates a national Customs Council presided by the finance ministry and sets agent licenses at 20 years with mandatory certification every three years.
• Agentes aduanales face expanded duties, including solidary responsibility for import taxes, elimination of liability exclusions, added suspension grounds, and verification of importer and exporter compliance.
• Facilities must implement electronic inventory control, videovigilance and real-time monitoring, while ANAM gains authority to grant or revoke simplified-dispatch permissions for courier and parcel firms.
• Opposition lawmakers argue the plan sidesteps the ‘huachicol fiscal’ scandal and entrenches militarized operations; separately, Sheinbaum asked deputies to clarify a retroactivity transitory in an amparo reform that civil groups warn could restrict collective protections through a narrower definition of ‘legitimate interest’.