MEXICO’S PROMOTION PROGRAMS
IMMEX PROGRAM

 INDUSTRIA MANUFACTURERA, MAQUILADORA Y DE SERVICIOS DE EXPORTACIÓN (IMMEX)
The federal Government published on November 1st, 2006, the Decree for the Promotion of the Manufacturing Industry, maquiladora and Export Services (Decree IMMEX), with the objective to fortify the competitiveness of the Mexican exporting sector, offer certainty, transparency and continuity to the operations of businesses. Through stressing the factors of compliance and simplifying them, it allows them to adopt new forms to operate and do business by decreasing its logistics and Administrative costs; to modernize, to expedite and to reduce the procedures, in order to elevate the capacity of supervision in an environment that promotes attraction and retention of investments in the country.  This instrument integrates the program for the Promotion and Operation of the Export bonded assembly Plant Industry (Assembles) and Establishes Programs of Temporary Importing to Produce Articles of Export (PITEX), whose businesses represent in its entirety 85% of the manufacturing exports of Mexico.

DEFINITION
The Program IMMEX is an instrument that permits for the temporary import of goods in order to be utilized in an industrial process or service. It is designed for the elaboration, transformation and/or the repair of merchandises of foreign origin that is imported temporarily for its product and/or service export, without covering the payment of the general tax of importing, of the value-added tax, in the case of, compensatory quotas.
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PROCEDURES
The procedures relating to the Program IMMEX are free and can be carried out in person in the office of attention to the public of the Federal Representations of the secretary of Economy that corresponds to the residence of the plant where the production process or service is being carried out.
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LEGAL FRAMEWORK
The Decree for the Promotion of the Manufacturing Industry, maquiladora and Export services, published on November 1st, 2006.
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IED (Inversión Extranjera Directa)
In the case of the maquiladora industry, the Direct Foreign Investment materializes in the form of importing goods. Between 2000 and 2006 this industry received $2.600 annual million dollars, which represents an average of 27% of the total of the manufacturing industry.

TRADE BALANCE

Fuente: CNIMME con información de Banco de México

Consejo Nacional de la Industria Maquiladora de Exportación, A.C.
Sistema de Parques Industriales
Programa IMMEX
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