▲Customs regulations are updated in accordance with the needs of international commercial exchange, the president of the Senate said yesterday. The image, in Manzanillo.Photo Germán Canseco
Andrea Becerril
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 10, 2025, p. 6
The Senate is preparing to approve next week, with the votes of Morena and allies, the minutes with the reforms to the Customs Law that the Chamber of Deputies sent them last Wednesday, and which is already being analyzed by the First Finance and Legislative Studies Commissions, headed by Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez and Manuel Huerta Ladrón de Guevara.
The president of the Senate, Laura Itzel Castillo (Morena), highlighted that it is an important reform, aimed at attacking evasion and other tax crimes and guaranteeing that foreign trade operations comply with the law, in addition to updating the regulatory framework in accordance with the current needs of international commercial exchange.
The opposition announced that it will vote against. The coordinator of the PRI, Manuel Añorve Baños, announced that they will not endorse the amendment because the 4T bloc, made up of Morena, PT and PVEM, “is not going to want to change a single comma” to the minutes, which “does not address the underlying issues nor does it address cases of corruption linked to smuggling and the so-called huachicol fiscal”.
Among the main modifications to the law sent to the Senate are that customs agent patents will be valid for 20 years, with the possibility of renewing another 20, but with mandatory certifications every three years. A customs council is created, in charge of resolving the granting, suspension or cancellation of said patents, in addition to the corresponding disqualifications.
However, Claudia Anaya (PRI) considered that the amendment does not resolve the issue of controls for those in charge of the country’s customs. In his opinion, better controls and administrative procedures are required around the granting of the 20-year patent, which could be 40, or else the patent holders could engage in business or commit crimes, such as huachicol fiscal.
It is necessary, he insisted, to include greater requirements to know when to remove these licenses, if they commit irregularities; “There is a lack of control mechanisms.”
He highlighted that the Digital Transformation Agency is assigned functions in customs control, and this requires that it be provided with “a lot of budget”, given that it will need very well-kept software with extensive support to avoid hacking, because there is too much data that they try to put in there.”
In itself, he added, this agency has more and more powers, which have been given to it in various laws, not only in Telecommunications. Unfortunately, he pointed out, they want to approve it in a hurry, without the analysis that the Senate, as the reviewing chamber, must carry out of what was approved by the deputies.
