Luggage and exemption
¿What is included in your luggage?
- Personal items, including clothes, shoes, toiletries and beauty products, provided that they correspond with the duration of trips, including a wedding dress, baby items, including portable chair and cradle, stroller, walker, including accessories.
- 2 photo cameras or video cameras, photo material, 3 mobile phones or other wireless networks, 1 GPS device, 1 electronic agenda, 1 laptop computer, notebook, omnibook or similar, 1 portable copying or printing machine, 1 CD burner and 1 portable projector, and accessories.
- 2 pieces of personal sports equipment, 4 fishing rods, 3 sliders with or without sails and their accessories, trophies or awards, provided that they can be carried by the passenger with ease.
- 1 portable sound recording or playing device or mix, or 2 image and sound recording or playing digital devices and a portable DVD player, a set of portable speakers and accessories.
- 5 laser disks, 10 DVD disks, 30 compact disks, 3 software packages and 5 storage devices for any electronic equipment.
- Books, magazines and printed documents.
- 5 toys, including collection items, and a videogame console, as well as 5 videogames.
- 1 device to measure blood pressure and 1 to measure glucose or mix and reagents, as well as personal use medication (in case of psychotropic substances a prescription must be shown).
- Suitcases, pouches, crates and baggage or any other item necessary to transport luggage.
- 1 set of binoculars and 1 telescope.
- 2 music instruments and accessories.
- 1 camping tent and other camping items.
- A set of hand tools in their cases, which may include a drill, pliers, keys, craps, screwdrivers, jumper cables, and others.
- Passengers over 18 years old, a maximum of 10 cigarette packs, 25 cigars or 200 grams of tobacco, up to 3 liters of alcoholic beverages and 6 liters of wine.
- Senior citizens and persons with disabilities, the articles whose characteristics supplement or decrease their limitation, such as walkers, wheelchairs, crutches, canes and others.
Additionally, you may import free of taxes, up to 3 pets or companion animals you are carrying with you, such as cats, dogs, canaries, hamsters, guinea pigs, parrots, turtles, small wild birds (except birds of prey), as well as the accessories they require for their transportation and grooming, as long as you show the animal´s health certificate to the customs personnel for imports, issued by SADER;
In the case of wildlife animals, you must additionally show the Verification Registry issued by PROFEPA, which proves compliance of the regulation or non-tariff restriction they are subject to.
Passengers may bring into Mexico additional goods to their personal luggage, with a value of up to 500 US dollars (or its equivalent in national or foreign currency), without paying taxes, whether they arrive by land, air, or sea.
If the goods are purchased in the border zone, the same 500-dollar limit applies, provided that the passenger presents a tax receipt proving the purchase in that area. This amount may be combined among family members.
You can prove the value of the goods included in the allowance with invoices or sales receipts. If you do not have them, customs personnel may determine the value of the goods.
With your allowance you may not introduce:
- Alcoholic beverages.
- Manufactured tobacco.
- Automotive fuel, except for that contained in your vehicle’s fuel tank.
The period of the Héroes Paisanos program for fiscal year 2025 will be as follows:
- Holy Week: March 18 to April 20
- Summer: July 1 to August 3
- Winter: November 28, 2025 to January 8, 2026
Temporal import of equipment for activities of press, radio or television journalism
Natural persons living abroad who perform activities of press, radio or television journalism, as well as activities related to cinematography, may temporarily import the goods necessary to perform their duties in the two following ways.
- List of goods
In this case a list of goods must be shown in customs, detailing the amount and description of such goods, in addition to the proof issued by the Mexican consulate, where the identification details of the media outlets or the incorporation they represent are shown. In this case, neither a request nor the services of a customs agent will be necessary.
- With an ATA carnet
Instead of the request or the form officially approved by SAT at the entry point of goods, any valid ATA carnet may be used for temporary import but returning to the foreign country in no more than 6 months is necessary.
- Temporal imports bound by the ATA carnet may be conducted in any customs office of the country.