The Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, announced on Tuesday a presidential decree that prohibits the import of footwear completed under the temporal format, with the aim of curbing unfair competition and strengthening the national industry.
This was announced on a tour that headed in Celaya, Guanajuato, during the presentation of the Puerta del Bajío Development Pole, which is raised as a strategic logistics center for the country.
“The President of the Republic, Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum, has asked me to share a resolution, a decision that has made and that will go into force in the next few days,” Ebrard said in an act with industrialists in the sector in León.
He explained that between 2019 and 2024 the activity of the industry 12.8% has fallen and said that “the main reason is the temporal import of finished product, that is to say that it does not pay VAT, which is not exported and that it is in stores.”
With the decree that seeks to end the abuse of the IMMEX program “the importation of footwear products in the temporal format to our country will no longer be allowed. It is enough and it is over. It means that it will not be able to be imported to Mexico finished shoes that do not pay taxes.”
“Do you want to import? Pay taxes. The 25%tariff, at least,” he said.
Ebrard warned that the following objective will be to combat technical smuggling, which described as the undervaluation of the products, evade authorities and sell this type of footwear.
“There is no deception about warning. We have to do it, because if not, they are turning us around,” Ebrard warned.
Likewise, the official headed the presentation of the Puerta del Bajío Development Pole, which he described as: “The only development pole, of the 15 we have, which aims to enhance a unique location from the logistics point of view.”
“It is the most relevant logistics center today of all development poles,” he admitted.
He stressed that the Federal Government will grant the highest degree of fiscal incentive to companies that are installed in this complex with respect to any competitor, even abroad.
The Undersecretary of Economy, Vidal Llerenas, recalled that the development poles are part of an industrial policy that seeks to protect traditional industries that must be preserved, as is the case of the footwear industry.
And he said: “We have to protect it from trade that is not loyal to nations, with which we have no commercial treaty”
With EFE information
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