Infrastructure and Logistics
Panel
August 26th, 2014
Economic figures
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From January to June 2014, the total worth of import and export goods was 386
billion dollars (bd), 3.7% more than that of the same period in 2013.
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During the same time, taxes collected from foreign trade operations totaled 13.2
bd, a growth of 5.5% regarding with the same period of last year. Such amount
represents 18.7% of total revenue collection.
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Furthermore, Customs collected 45.9% of the total value-added tax paid in
the country between January and June 2014.
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The following operations are registered daily in Ports of Entry across the
country:
 44,500 operations (automated selection device) and more than 28,000
cargo vehicles participating in foreign trade.
 More than 184,000 privately-owned vehicles and around 944,000
people cross the border into our country.
 Almost 49,000 international passengers arrive through the airports.
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Modernization Plan of Customs Infrastructure 2013-2018
• Mexican Customs Administration has set a policy to modernize its infrastructure
in order to properly meet the dynamics of foreign trade.
• The modernization plan for this administration (2013-2018) includes 56 projects,
classified as new facilities, reorganizing of current facilities, and expansion of
facilities.
• The plan aims to improve and optimize current infrastructure in order to facilitate
foreign trade and promote competitiveness.
Infrastructure Projects
Type
Northern
Border
Southern
Border
Seaside
Customs
Inland
Customs
Total
New facilities
17
5
7
4
33
Reorganizing facilities
9
2
1
1
13
Expansions
7
0
3
0
10
Total
33
7
11
5
56
The execution of this plan will require an investment of over 700 Million Dollars
between 2013 and 2018.
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Innovative aspects of the projects
• Automated clearance (pilot program in Nuevo Laredo III).
• Benefits in customs clearance for certified enterprises.
• Exclusive lanes for certified enterprises (AEO Mexico, CTPAT-FAST).
• New scanning technology for license plate identification.
• Relocation and updating of non-intrusive inspection equipment.
• Optimizing of non-intrusive inspection procedures to expedite clearance.
• Integrated systems to automate operations and improve risk assessment.
• Sharing of images from non-intrusive equipment in the US-Mexico border (pilot
program in Matamoros-Brownsville rail crossing).
• Deployment of identification mechanisms for pedestrian crossings.
• Development of “mirror customs” (pilot program in Otay II-Otay-Mesa East).
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Modernization Plan of Customs Infrastructure 2013-2018
Progress to July, 2014
Tijuana
Reynosa
Matamoros
New pedestrian access
“Puerta Este”
Progress: Starting in the
near future (September,
2014).
Investment:
5.1
MD
(State
Government
funding)
Relocation of lanes
Progress: Starting in the
near future (September,
2014)
Investment: 381 thousand
Dlls.
New rail crossing
Matamoros-Brownsville
Progress: Starting in the near
future (September, 2014)
Investment:
84
MD
(SCT/Licensee funding)
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Modernization Plan of Customs Infrastructure 2013-2018
Ciudad Juárez
Prospective 2014
Ojinaga
New bridge crossing and port
facilities “Guadalupe Tornillo”
New infrastructure POV and
cargo inspection.
Progress: Starting in the near
future (September, 2014).
Investment: 14.30 MD
Full reorganizing of bridge
“Zaragoza-Ysleta”
50% increased capacity in inspection
platforms, 66% in import exit lanes
and 25% in equipment.
Progress: Starting in the near future
(September, 2014).
Investment: 26.58 MD
Expanding overall
facilities (Phase I)
Progress: Starting in the
near future (September
2014).
Investment: 11.46 MD
Nuevo Laredo
Project
Outlines
to
expanding and reorganizing
6 different ports of entry.
Tecate,
Acuña,
Puerto
Palomas, Ojinaga, Mexicali II
y Subteniente López
Progress:
Under
design
(December, 2014).
Investment: 2.7 MD
New certified enterprises
lanes and buffer zone
Progress: Starting in the
near future (August, 2014).
Investment: 1.15 MD (State
Government funding)
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Joint projects with California, USA
Tijuana Airport
Tecate - Tecate
Mexicali I – Calexico West
Mexicali II – Calexico West
• Pedestrian Connection
100% increase in infrastructure
for Customs personnel and
expanding
of
passenger
inspection area.
Progress: 80% completed
Completion date: 2014-2015
• Project outline for
expanding Customs facilities
100% increase in infrastructure
and equipment for cargo
inspection areas and expanding
of
POV
and
pedestrian
inspection areas.
Completion date: 2014-2015
Investment: Nearly 250
thousand Dlls.
•Expanding of Border
crossing
Construction of a new building
for
pedestrian
inspection,
improved connections with the
city’s roadways, and greater
capacity for crossings north and
southbound.
Completion date: 2015-2017
Investment: Over 42 MD.
•Reorganizing
of
cargo
inspection areas
75% increase in capacity for
import and export cargo
inspection
and
high
specification equipment.
Completion date: 2014-2016
Investment: Over 175 thousand
Dlls. (import area) and nearly 13
MD (export area).
El Chaparral – San Ysidro
•Pedestrian crossing “Puerta Este”
Progress: 80% completed
•New northbound lanes
Progress: To be initiated once connection
of I5 to El Chaparral is completed (2015).
Otay-Otay Mesa
Otay II – Otay Mesa East
•Reorganizing of import
area
50% increase in capacity for
cargo clearance.
Completion date: 2014-2016
Investment: Over 52 MD.
•Construction of new toll
border crossing
Completion date: 2017-2018
•Construction
of
toll
intermodal
port
for
commercial
and
noncommercial traffic
Completion date: 2017-2018
•Connection to I5 and 9 northbound
lanes
Progress: Project outline completed
•New pedestrian inspection and
administrative building
Completion date: 2015
USA projects
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Single Rail Manifest
Unifies data contained in the cargo manifests, allowing carriers to submit
information to Customs authorities in Mexico and the United States (SAT and
CBP) simultaneously in electronic format.
Enables customs authorities of both countries to perform joint risk assessment.
Additionally, traders will benefit from having an identical format to convey
information, resulting in faster and less expensive procedures.
• Rail freight. A pilot program is being deployed for northbound traffic (from
Mexico to the US) at Nogales, Sonora – Nogales, Arizona, and at Mexicali, Baja
California – Calexico, California. It is expected to be operating by the end of
2014.
• Land cargo: The Mexican Revenue Service (SAT) will develop a manifest for
truck cargo, starting with northbound traffic. Pilot testing will start in 2016.
• Sea and air cargo: Pilot testing of harmonized manifests is expected to begin
in 2015.
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Cargo Pre-inspection
• CBP and SAT will conduct a joint inspection at a single checkpoint, facilitating
customs clearance.
• The project includes three initial pilots:
 Laredo (Texas) Airport to clear air cargo destined to 7 Mexican airports.
 Tijuana Port of Entry, at Mesa de Otay, to clear agriculture products.
 “Foxconn” facilities, near Ciudad Juárez Port of Entry, to clear computer
shipments.
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Authorized Economic Operator- Mexico
• AEO
Mexico certifies manufacturing
enterprises, shippers (transporters) and
customs brokers. In the near future, the
program will extend to other parties in the
supply chain to include industrial parks,
port operators and couriers.
14%
390
Certified
Enterprises
20%
• By July 31th, 2014, 447 applications have been
36%
Various
manufactured
goods
Electronics
Auto parts
Others
30%
submitted (not including shippers), among
which:
 390 have been authorized
 35 are being processed
 12 have relinquished
 10 have been denied
• The 390 certified enterprises have a total of
763 facilities, of which 276 are C-TPAT.
20%
6%
7%
20%
763
Certified
Facilities
9%
12%
11%
17%
Chihuahua
Baja California
Distrito Federal
Tamaulipas
Nuevo León
Jalisco
Estado de México
Others
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Certified Cargo Infrastructure
Pilot Program: Certified cargo confined lanes
Main objectives
Develop infrastructure, equipment and operation rules to expedite
clearance for AEO Mexico and US.
Benefits are divided in four stages:
1. Reaching Customs facilities.
2. Entering Customs facilities.
3. Inspection and verification at Mexican ports of entry.
4. Inspection and verification at CBP.
Certified Cargo Operations
Pilot Program selection process
1. Review built in capacity and traffic flows in customs
facilities along US/MX border.
Reynosa
1. Joint visits in the following crossings:
Nogales
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Tijuana
Ciudad Juárez
Zaragoza/Ysleta
Mexicali/Calexico
Tijuana/Otay
Nuevo Laredo/Laredo
3. Recommendation for pilot execution based on:
Nuevo Laredo
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50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000
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Required infrastructure
Potential impact
Stakeholder support
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Certified Cargo Infrastructure
Pilot Program: Certified cargo confined lanes
Next steps
POE reconfiguration
1. Project timeline approval
2. Stakeholders outreach
• Certified companies
• State and local authorities
3. Define operation rules and communication plan
4. Improve existing infrastructure
5. Define milestones
• Benchmarking (before/after)
• Monitoring
• Stakeholder feedback
Stage
Activities
Reaching Customs
Facilities
Lane confinement:
- Stakeholders commitments
- Improving infrastructure
Entering Customs
‐ Operation rules and communication plan
‐ Temporary infrastructure improvements
‐ POE reconfiguration
facilities and inspection
and verification at
Execution period
January-March 2014
May- September 2014
April-June 2014
July-October 2014
May 2014-July 2015
Mexican Ports of entry
Monitoring before and after improvements
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Mutual Recognition Agreement
•
Mexico has the most solid Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) in
Latin America. Therefore, various countries have approached Mexico
with the intention of subscribing a Mutual Recognition Agreement
(MRA).
•
An MRA allows for the recognition between the AEOs of two countries
and the compatibility of their respective levels of exigency. Both parties
in an MRA recognize their counterpart as reliable, promoting the
development of new supply chains between the two Nations.
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On March 11th, the MRA between Mexico’s and Korea’s AEOs was signed,
constituting the first MRA in Mexico and Latin America.
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We are currently completing the last phase in the negotiation to
subscribe a similar agreement with the United States of America’s CTPAT program. Once this agreement is formalized, the benefits for
certified enterprises that take part in foreign trade with the US will be
tangible.
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Facilitation Strategies for Passengers
Improved Passenger Inspection
A new procedure was recently implemented in 12 airports, by which baggage
inspection is done using X-ray equipment, and only if the automated selection
device requires it, reducing the time for passenger customs clearance.
Trusted Traveler Program (Viajero Confiable)
A Trusted Traveler will be able to clear immigration and customs through
special desks located at the Mexico City, Cancun and Los Cabos airports. By
June 30th, there were 468 members of the program.
Payment of duties for exceeding personal exemption at point-of-sale
(POS) terminals
By June 30th, 125 POS terminals have been installed in 46 Ports of Entry across
the Country, registering a total of 44,569 operations that equal 3.7 million
dollars in revenue collection.
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