We suggest you begin your foray into the world of foreign trade consulting Exporter Basic Guide where you will find information and advice necessary to let you know the main aspects that are required for export business.

Ponemos a su disposición una serie de herramientas que le permitirán realizar un análisis de su empresa para evaluar sus capacidades de exportación e identificar las áreas de oportunidad que debe atender para emprender con éxito su estrategia global. En una etapa inicial la más recomendable es el Ciclo Exportador.

• Autodiagnóstico para la PyME

Este instrumento de evaluación, preparado por el Centro de Comercio Internacional (CCI), le permitirá medir el nivel de preparación exportadora de su empresa.

Esta herramienta provee a los administradores de las PyME que desean incursionar en el mercado internacional una visión global del grado de preparación de la empresa y un plan de trabajo para llevarla a cabo.

• Ciclo exportador

Con este autodiagnóstico podrá determinar su conocimiento del proceso de exportación y con ello precisar en qué etapa del mismo se encuentra actualmente.

Por medio de un sistema interactivo de consulta, encontrará las seis etapas que integran el Ciclo Exportador. Una vez definidas sus necesidades, el sistema le indicará los servicios de información, asesoría, publicaciones, capacitación, promoción y financieros que le ayudarán a exportar de acuerdo con la situación detectada en la autoevaluación en línea.

• Empaque y Embalaje

Mediante este sistema de autodiagnóstico podrá evaluar las fortalezas y debilidades de su empresa en materia del envase y embalaje para productos de exportación y su transporte internacional.

• Calidad

Este sistema le permitirá conocer y determinar su nivel de preparación para proceder a la certificación de sus procesos con base en la norma de calidad internacional ISO 9001:2000.

To learn about the exportation procedures and documents you can consult the export guides which will give an overview.

The documents in this editorial collection are practices tools for exporters and those who wish to join the export process.

On the materials are available a basic guide of export procedures and documents (this being the most recommended at an early stage); market guides that provide insight into the ways of doing business in specific countries and the opportunities they offer, as well guidelines on specific sectors, which details the procedures, tariff regulations and technical standards in the export process.

• Export guidelines


• For more specialized information ProMéxico offers specialized consultancy Service

In ProMéxico we have the Mexican Exporter Directory , is a directory with details of the major Mexican companies that export, as well as organizations and agencies that provide various support services for export from Mexico. With the Mexico Trade Directory you can consult exporters and service companies to foreign trade.

ProMéxico has a system called Hecho en México - B2B by which you will find the supply and demand for Mexican products abroad. It is an online and real-time system with access from the trade section; you can search by product, service, company or region. These opportunities are captured by ProMéxico offices abroad.

Through our Trade section in the chapter Information to export are the foreign trade statistics where you can access tools such as: Trade Map, Investment Map, Country Map and government sources of information such as SIAVI (Information Tariff System) that offers tariff data.

The tariff is the universal way to identify a product; with it identifies the tariff (tax) to be paid when entering your product abroad as well as to meet the non-tariff that Mexico established and such as the country import the product.

The Customs law authorizes only the customs broker, customs agent and the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit for the determination of tariff, given the degree of specialization, technical complexity and the risks and responsibilities of a bad rating.

To determine the tariff for a product, you have the following choices:

• A Customs Broker
• Guidance offices in Taxpayer Assistance in Foreign Trade of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit
• You can attend the orientation module of the Customs Clearance of CAAAREM

An export project is an analysis that allows the company to know the procedure to export successfully, taking into account various economic, commercial and social costs as well as target market, customs, transport and insurance, to name a few.

To do this you can consult the electronic publications that are in the Information to export and Services for exporters.

We also recommend you to consult a Customs Broker.

ProMéxico counts with the section Bilateral Relations of Mexico where you'll find tabs country, political and economic scenarios, regulations and legislation.

You can also consult the Market Access Map from the International Trade Center where you will find a complete source of tariffs and market access measures applied bilaterally.

The first export sectors in Mexico in 2009 were the 85chapter (appliances and electrical goods) with 26.55% of the total and Chapter 87 (motor vehicles), representing 14.68%, followed by mineral fuels sector (chapter 27, with 13.27%), and within walking distance export of nuclear reactors (chapter 84, 12.66%).