BackOn May 16, 2022, the “Decree exempting the payment of import duties of the goods indicated therein” was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (“DOF”).
According to such publication, derived from the high inflation the country recently suffered and in response to the Package Against Inflation and Poverty published by the President on May 4, 2022, through the Decree in question, temporarily exempts (for one year) the payment of the general import tax of 66 tariff codes including basic food basket products: corn oil, rice, tuna, pork, chicken meat, beef, onion, jalapeño pepper, beans, corn flour, wheat flour, egg, toilet soap, tomato, milk, lemon, white corn, apple, orange, bread, potato, pasta for soup, sardine, sorghum, wheat, carrot, among others.
