Miguel Cos Nesbitt, president of the Confederation of Associations of Customs Agents of the Mexican Republic (Caaarem), warned that they will not support the companies affiliated with their body when it is detected that it has participated in bad practices such as smuggling and customs fraud.
“In Caaarem we are not going to defend or shelter those who lend themselves to bad practices, so we have initiated a historic process of self -regulation of the guild,” said the businessman in the signing of the collaboration agreement between Concamin and Caaarem to combat smuggling and customs fraud in the textile industries, footwear and dress.
According to the business representative, for a few months the Code of Ethics and Conduct was reformed to have tools that allow evaluating, sanctioning and separating those who act maliciously, since they have damaged the image of the profession and confidence in the system.
“Today an agreement between industry and foreign trade is sealed to close the smuggling and the undervaluation of goods, phenomena that are causing serious damage to the productive apparatus,” he said.
“We know that this enemy is not new, but it has evolved in the Mexican economy, so we need to understand, study it and face it with intelligence and unity, smuggling is not a static practice, but it has been detected that it mutates, adapts, takes advantage of legal and technological gaps,” he said
Today we must work together the industry and customs agents to combat smuggling and customs fraud, said Miguel Cos Nesbitt
We are clear that smuggling affects the industry, it hurts the public image of customs agents, as well as breaks confidence in the supply chain and hinders dialogue with the authorities to advance the modernization that we all want, he said.
“The customs agents are equally interested as the industry to eradicate it to the smuggling and customs fraud in Mexico,” he said.
Mexico is the tenth export power of the world, but “we know that, without bad practices, we could further advance in that ranking, because foreign trade is not only volume: it is confidence, legality and traceability,” said the president of Caaarem.
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