Mexico Market Transportation Update

During the first half of the year Laredo’s outbound tender volume — a measure of shipper requests for truckload capacity — as well as tender rejects — have both been consistently higher in 2021 than 2020, though are lower right now vs. the same time last year, when they spiked during Peak Season. This may be an indication of the growing northbound/southbound imbalance. 

The Mexican government has extended the new Bill of Lading deadline to December 1, 2021, after which the requirement will become effective on January 1st, 2022 and penalties will be effective. .

Complemento Carta Porte al CFDI / Bill of Lading Complement to a CFDI --  There is an important new requirement to shipping your cross-border freight, which is currently in effect and will be required by Mexico law by January 1, 2022.

The Mexican government has recently issued a new fiscal control that will directly impact all commercial transportation moves in Mexico. As a means to have greater control over the transportation sector, the Mexican government through the Secretariat of Finance (Hacienda) has issued a new requirement that will tie all cargo moves digitally to a formal digital invoice, referred to in Mexico as a CFDI, by obligating the carrier to add certain information to this electronic document in order to create a digital version of a Bill of Lading. The Bill of Lading will now be a “complement” of the digital invoice that was issued for the shipment by the Mexican carrier.

What impacts will this have over Mexico/U.S. cross-border shippers?

The reform will have an impact on practically all shippers and the different players across the transportation supply chain. Mexican shippers will now be required to share additional information with their Mexican carrier base in order to adequately document a shipment. This will include piece count, weight, merchandise to be moved, the final destination of said merchandise, and in the case of International Transportation, the Pedimento associated with that move; among other things.

What modes of transportation does this requirement apply to?

• The requirement applies to all modes of transportation crossing over the Mexico and U.S. border – truckload, intermodal, and bulk.

When will the bill of lading complement the CFDI requirement come into effect?

• The requirement originally was to become mandatory on October 1, 2021. The deadline has now been pushed back to December 1, 2021 without penalties, and mandatory on January 1, 2022 with penalties.

The IHS Markit Mexico Manufacturing PMI rose to 49.3 in October 2021, from 48.6 in the previous month, reflecting a softer contraction in the country's manufacturing sector.

Output decreased for the 20th month in a row, amid reports of a lack of raw material availability, business closures and subdued sales, while new orders continued to fall due to shutdowns, weak demand and shortages of goods for sale.  

Though, business sentiment hit a 42-month high in October, reflecting expectations that the pandemic will recede and raw material availability will improve. 

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Mexico’s federal government has fully relaxed restrictions on social and business activities in all but 3 of the nation’s 32 states—the most states operating at green traffic light status since the government instituted its pandemic traffic light monitoring system in June 2020. 

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