It is common to hear that auto part manufacturers with plants in
Mexico that export their final products or that sell them to
Mexican Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), operate under
trade facilitation programs that allow them to import into Mexico
raw materials, machinery and equipment with certain benefits.
Most of the manufacturers operate as IMMEX authorized
companies.
IMMEX is the Spanish acronym for the Manufacturing, Maquila and
Export Services Industries Program. The IMMEX Program is a foreign
trade facilitation instrument created by the Mexican government
that allows authorized companies to import goods into Mexico on a
temporary basis, to be used in the production of final products
destined for export or in rendering export related services.
