Mexico City, Mexico — Profepa and the Latin American Confederation of Customs Agents have agreed to strengthen environmental oversight of foreign trade. The agreement was made during the signing of a collaboration agreement Tuesday.
Federal Attorney General’s Office for Environmental Protection said Wednesday that the aim is to strengthen environmental verification and inspection at ports, airports and borders of Mexico.
It also hopes to prevent the irregular entry and exit of goods subject to environmental regulation. The agreement was signed between Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (Profepa) and the Confederación Latinoamericana de Agentes Aduanales (CLAA) on December 16, 2025.
Through this agreement, both institutions establish the collaboration mechanisms to design, promote and execute joint actions in the area of training, dissemination of regulatory improvements, updating of the legal framework, exchange of information, experiences and best practices.
It also establishes strengthening the points of verification and environmental inspection, in accordance with the applicable legal framework.
The signing was led by Mariana Boy Tamborrell, Attorney for Profepa, and AA John Michael Willy Kolter, President of the CLAA.
The CLAA, founded in 2005, brings together 66 customs agents and aims to facilitate foreign trade operations, contributing to the transparency of the customs sector and the protection of the environment.
The agreement includes training for Profepa staff on foreign trade of goods regulated by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) and the Agreement on Control of the Process and Use of Pesticides and Toxic Substances (CICOPLAFEST), and holding forums aimed at customs agents, industrialists and other actors in foreign trade on cross-border movements of import, export and re-export of regulated goods.
It was also agreed to exchange information and best practices to facilitate compliance with non-tariff regulations and restrictions on environmental matters, streamline verification and inspection processes, and strengthen environmental verification points on the main foreign trade routes.
As part of the commitments undertaken, both parties will develop an annual work program aimed at preventing, detecting and inhibiting the alleged irregular introduction or extraction of goods regulated by Semarnat and the CICOPLAFEST Agreement.
With this agreement, Profepa reaffirms its commitment to work in a coordinated manner to promote environmental compliance in the transboundary movements of flora, fauna, forest products and by-products, and hazardous materials and waste.
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