ANAM – Agencia Nacional de Aduanas de México

Sistema Electrónico
de Aduanas

Luggage and exemption

Passengers may bring, free of tax payment, new or used goods that make up their personal luggage and duty-free goods:

1. List of goods comprising personal luggage:

  • Personal items, such as clothing, footwear, and toiletries or beauty products, provided they are consistent with the duration of the trip, including a bridal trousseau; baby items such as a chair, portable crib, stroller, walker, among others, including their accessories.
  • Two photographic or video cameras; photographic material; three portable cellular phones or other wireless network devices; one global positioning system (GPS) device; one electronic organizer; two electronic tablets; two portable computers such as laptop, notebook, omnibook, or similar; one portable copier or printer; one burner and one portable projector, with their accessories.
  • Two personal sports equipment items, four fishing rods, three surfboards with or without sail and their accessories, trophies or awards, provided they can be commonly and normally transported by the passenger.
  • One portable device for sound recording or reproduction or mixed use; or two for recording or reproducing digital image and sound, and one portable DVD player; as well as one set of portable speakers and their accessories.
  • Five laser discs, ten DVDs, thirty compact discs (CDs), three software packages, and five storage devices for any electronic equipment.
  • Books, magazines, and printed documents.
  • Five toys, including collectibles, and one video game console, as well as five video games.
  • One device for measuring blood pressure and one for measuring glucose, or a combined one, including reagents, as well as personal-use medicines. In the case of psychotropic substances, the corresponding medical prescription must be shown.
  • Suitcases, trunks, chests, and any other item necessary for the transport of luggage.
  • For passengers over 18 years of age, a maximum of twenty packs of cigarettes, twenty-five cigars, or two hundred grams of tobacco, up to three liters of alcoholic beverages, and six liters of wine.
  • One binocular and one telescope.
  • Two musical instruments and their accessories.
  • One tent and other camping items.
  • For elderly passengers and people with disabilities, items that by their nature substitute or reduce their limitations, such as walkers, wheelchairs, crutches, canes, among others.
  • One set of hand tools including its case, which may comprise a drill, pliers, wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers, jumper cables, among others.

Passengers may also import, free of taxes, up to three pets or companion animals they bring with them, understood as: cats, dogs, canaries, hamsters, guinea pigs, budgerigars, cockatiels, ferrets, parakeets, turtles, small wild birds (except birds of prey), as well as the necessary accessories for their transport and hygiene, provided they present to customs personnel the zoosanitary certificate for importation issued by SADER. In the case of wildlife animals, the Verification Registry issued by PROFEPA must also be presented, proving compliance with the applicable tariff regulations and restrictions.

Passengers may bring into Mexico, in addition to their personal luggage, goods whose value is supported by an invoice or sales receipt and does not exceed 500 (five hundred) US dollars or its equivalent in national or foreign currency, regardless of whether the passenger enters the country by land, air, or sea.

In addition to the provisions of this rule, when the goods are purchased in the border strip or region, the amount of 500 (five hundred) US dollars will apply, provided the passenger proves this circumstance with a tax receipt issued in the border strip or region.

During the periods corresponding to the “Héroes Paisanos” Program, published on the ANAM Portal, passengers coming from the border strip or region into the country may import, under the exemption, goods up to 500 (five hundred) US dollars or its equivalent in national or foreign currency.

The exemptions of members of the same family may be combined, provided they arrive in national territory simultaneously and by the same means of transport.

You can prove the value of the goods included in the exemption with invoices or sales receipts. If you do not have them, customs personnel may determine the value of the goods.

With your exemption, you may not introduce:

  • Alcoholic beverages.
  • Manufactured tobacco.
  • Automotive fuel, except that contained in the fuel tank of your vehicle.

The “Héroes Paisanos” Program period 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

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.