Overview

• The session was held ahead of Monday’s expected committee opinion in the Chamber of Deputies’ Comisión de Hacienda on President Claudia Sheinbaum’s proposed overhaul of the Ley Aduanera.
• Customs brokers told deputies the proposal shifts from trade facilitation to punitive fiscalization, raising risks for the entry of medical inputs and fertilizers.
• Participants said draft language would lift monetary sanctions to 250–350% of omitted duties or the commercial value of goods.
• CAAAREM argued the text places excessive liability on private brokers while excluding public officials from responsibility and said brokers lack the tools to act as enforcement police.
• Sen. Olga Sosa described the initiative as a modernization that employs digital technologies to boost revenue and security, while CAAAREM warned of higher costs and potential supply disruptions in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, fertilizers and resins.