On March 6, 2019, Mexico’s Tax Administration (SAT), issued Fact Sheet No. 8 announcing that as of June 30, 2019, transmissions of airway bills and manifests via the VUCEM (single window) in accordance with Foreign Trade Rules 1.9.10. and 1.9.17 must meet certain requirements or the companies will be subject to penalties.
After June 30, in order to ensure that the information transmitted is reliable and errors are minimized or eliminated, air transportation companies, international freight agents and courier companies who carry out the electronic transmission of data to VUCEM, must meet the following requirements:
- Have a point of contact available 24x7x365 to solve problems in a timely manner;
- Have all the web services developed by the SAT implemented, as well as all the improvements and updates for sending and receiving XML messages;
- Have a web service to transmit airway bills and manifests and receive VUCEM acknowledgement;
- Have a web service to retrieve answers that were not received; and
- In conjunction with their provider, conduct approved testing for volume, security and quality of information as defined by SAT
The companies must also provide SAT with full technical details of their service provider(s), IP and port of origin, procedures for errors in transmissions, etc.
