Trade agreements
Mexico has a broad network of trade agreements, and each one opens preferential access as long as the goods meet the rules of origin and the paperwork survives a verification. The hard part is rarely the preferential rate itself, it is proving entitlement to it: incomplete records, weakly supported certificates, and suppliers who never document their regional content. BG Consulting Group structures origin determination and certification so the tariff benefit is applied with backing and holds up before the authority.
Where is the problem with your goods' origin?
Four questions to point you toward the right next step.
What is your situation today?
Situations we handle
The buyer demands a certificate and origin is not supported
A foreign buyer makes the purchase conditional on a certificate of origin under the applicable agreement, but the company has no records proving the rule is met. Without that traceability, you either lose the sale or issue a certificate that will not survive a later verification.
National suppliers that do not document their content
The finished good qualifies only if domestic inputs prove their origin, yet suppliers hand over invoices with no declaration and none of the formats the calculation requires. The company is left claiming an origin it cannot demonstrate.
Paying the general tariff by missing the applicable preference
Goods that could enter at a preferential rate are imported paying the general tariff because no one analyzed the agreement, the tariff code, or the nomenclature correlation that unlocks the benefit. It is a recurring cost that goes unnoticed until the operations are audited.
An origin verification opened by the authority
The importing country's authority starts a verification and requires the declared origin to be supported within a set deadline. With no organized file and no technical line of response, the risk is denial of the preference and retroactive collection of the difference.
Scope of the service
Origin determination and records
We build the origin records supporting each product's qualification: input classification, criterion, and calculation.
Origin management with national suppliers
We design request formats and collect origin documentation from national suppliers for each relevant input.
Certification and registration of eligible products
We register qualifying products and obtain certificates of origin under the applicable instrument.
Audit and rule-of-origin compliance
We audit determination and certification to catch weak certifications before a verification does.
Preference analysis and tariff correlation
We identify available preferential rates and correlate tariff codes with regional nomenclatures, including ALADI.
Advance rulings and origin verifications
We file advance ruling requests and handle authority origin verifications to protect the preference already applied.
Benefits
Trade agreements and rules of origin, preferences appliedFrequently asked questions
Classification identifies the product, but it does not prove it meets the agreement's rule of origin. The origin record documents the applicable criterion, the inputs and their source, and the calculation. That is what you present in a verification: without it, the certificate has no backing even if the tariff code is correct.
From product qualification to the preferential rate applied.
Every origin operation moves through the same stages. When the authority opens a verification, BG handles the response from assembling the file through to closing the proceeding.
Feasibility analysis
We identify the agreements that apply to the goods, correlate tariff codes with regional nomenclatures, and determine which preferential rate fits each product. Without this analysis, a company may keep paying the general tariff when the preference is already available.
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