Enhance Shipping Efficiency with Legally Binding Online Signatures in Mexico

How to eSign a document: online signature licitness for Shipping in Mexico

[Music] we're gonna start talking a little bit about the Mexican cross-border process so we're going to talk about the easier of the two sides first and the easier two sides is the northbound process or which would be the export from Mexico and the import into the United States this process is just a little bit simpler probably everybody on this call was a little bit more familiar with that process and kind of some of the rules and regulations especially once we get into the US side but we're gonna kind of walk you through this process the the screen you see here if after this if any of you would like some of these we do have some of these printed out as well you can send a note in and we can try to get some of these sent out to you as well so obviously in the northbound process there's a few points to note before we before we kind of talk about this one is the fact that it is not uncommon to have three power units touch your cargo as it's trying to come northbound or southbound across the Mexican border so that's why you see some of these steps they may not make total sense but if you keep that in the back of your mind the entire time it'll kind of let the rest of this information you'll see how it fits in that process power unit 1 let's say from Mexico City up to Nuevo Laredo power unit 2 moving the cargo from the level Laredo to the Laredo side you'll hear them often called as ad rage company power unit 3 taking your cargo from a yard in Laredo to final destination somewhere in the United States so with that on the northbound side obviously the documentation process is very much the same as it is for any other import the supplier needs to provide commercial invoice packing list if there's any PGA's is the item qualified for NAFTA obviously an F is big in the news right now we can maybe talk about that a little bit later so but from a imitation standpoint really nothing different right a couple of different pieces even here though as that cargo is in route to the Nuevo Laredo port or it or any Mexican border town is that Mexico requires an actual export entry or an export credit meant oh it's similar for those of you who export out of the United States to the AES filing EEI filing something along those lines but it is actually a customs entry process which means a Mexican customs broker is required the amount of liability is not near as much on the northbound side for the Mexican broker but so we'll talk a little bit more about that when we start talking about southbound obviously the trucking information is very it's no different than if you're moving cargo from Kansas City to st. Louis here in the US so I did see a question pop up real quick someone asks what PGA stood for PGA's of participating government agencies you should be called other government agencies things like FDA USDA you have ATF Fish and Wildlife things like that Mexico has similar type items on their side as well so not only are you dealing with the US government agencies you're also dealing with the Mexican ones such as cigar pot which would be similar to our USDA so prior to the prior to the border crossing you will actually get the scat code of that border crossing agent will be provided to your US broker we will do a u.s. customs clearance we will do on the Mexican side we will also do the pediment oh and then you have what's called the cove a transmit the cove a and simple terms is basically an electronic copy of the commercial invoice sent to sent to customs so oh go ahead samuel yes sorry yeah just to interleave it just the comments yeah tronic precision for the commercial invoice that we provide the information directly in to the Mexican government which is a Mexican set correct okay so once the Dre so once that information is transmitted we actually have the the drayage piece or the border cross scene itself a lot of you maybe don't realize a lot of your cargo that gets imported into the United States customs agent never sees the conveyance they don't see the cargo coming north or south across the southern border every truck goes through a customs agent so every truck goes through a booth and go through through that customs agents booth itself which is something that's a little bit more unique than let's say a motion freight or air freight coming into the u.s. obviously like we said we have delivery to the US terminal and then the final delivery out a couple of points to note on the US side obviously you need to have a power of attorney in place with you your u.s. broker on the Mexican side you need to have your Mexican customer needs to have a power of attorney or you know Mexican shipper needs to have a power of attorney in place with the Mexican broker so real quick here's some of that documentation that's required you have the written authorization confirming that the broker can be the Mexican broker in the north bound the Mexican KOA this is where it gets a little bit more intense Mexico's Articles of Incorporation the company's registration widths at Mexico sat is very similar to our IRS it's the same type thing but there's a lot of information that here in the US that we don't file but in Mexico about anything that we do from a customer's perspective I don't want that does it bounce through customs a lot of it goes through the Sat as well tax ID and then additional information which is the cut which is the power of attorney granted to the company's legal representative and saying things like that so you will see here there's a lot more paperwork involved with setting up a mexican customs broker rather than setting up a u.s. broker here in the u.s. we get a power of attorney we do a couple of steps to that to make sure that you are who you say you are and then after that we accept that and we go ahead and move forward Mexico requires a lot more information and what we can kind of talk about why that is now there there's a question that relates to this as well and it's that in the United States the the onus the compliance risk falls on the importer of record in Mexico that is not the case in Mexico that compliance risk falls on the broker themselves so that's something that's very different than what we get here in the US and that's why you see a lot more information being required that's why when we start talking about southbound you know there's some common so sometimes my cargo takes a long time to cross the border you know why is my cargo get unloaded from a truck and there's a lot of that and this is the main reason why so as we get there we can talk a little bit more about that and it can add some information as well from the Mexican customs perspective and kind of what that looks like we also have this slide in Spanish so if there's any questions or you would like to send this out to any of your shippers feel free that you can send this as well I did notice someone asked a question just a moment ago about will they get a copy of this yes you will get a copy of this presentation so we did a quick talk you know the u.s. importer what information needs to be provided to the broker actually the same stuff as if you have air freight or ocean freight you know the same basic information so northbound is not overly complicated the process goes pretty quick we don't run into the inspection process like we do on the southbound side so cargo moving northbound across the border shouldn't feel or seem much different than your cargo that comes from Asia or Europe or Canada where cargo moves in the only big difference on the northbound side that there is an actual Mexican pedimental filed from a timing perspective shouldn't slow down any unless your your shipper doesn't is not set up with any specific broker and we can kind of talk about that in a minute [Music]