Joffroy Global

Mexico just expanded the reasons your company can lose its Padrón de Importadores.

Three of them have nothing to do with how you operate at the border.

Under the Reglas Generales de Comercio Exterior 2026, Rule 1.3.3 now adds three new suspension causes:
Being under criminal investigation (Fracción XXI). A formal criminal investigation against your company — for any reason, not just customs-related — is now grounds for Padrón suspension.

Failing to file customs guarantee accounts (Fracción XLIX). Missing or omitted cuentas aduaneras de garantía now trigger suspension. What was previously a documentary delinquency is now an operational shutdown risk.
Being identified as issuer of false CFDIs (Fracción L). Companies listed on SAT's 69-B presumption list — even as presumed, not confirmed — can lose import privileges. The connection between fiscal compliance and customs operations is now formal.

What changed in practice:

→ The Padrón is no longer a customs license. It is a fiscal-compliance license that happens to operate at the border.
→ Risks that lived inside the tax department now sit on the import schedule.
→ Companies that manage Padrón compliance in isolation from their broader fiscal posture now have a structural gap.

The 2026 framework is making a quiet structural statement: the Mexican government no longer treats import privileges as separable from your overall fiscal posture.
If you cannot be trusted with CFDIs, you cannot be trusted with pedimentos.

We have watched the Padrón evolve from a registration formality into a regulatory instrument over the course of 120+ years of cross-border work.

The 2026 reform isn't a new step. It is the latest step in a long arc of compliance integration.

For specific legal interpretations, consult your trade attorney. For the operational integration these rules now require — that is the work we have been doing since Mexico first required a Padrón de Importadores.
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