Verified against primary sources as of 21 August 2026. Laws and figures change — confirm current requirements before relying on this page.
Mexico: 4 verified country-layer records — mandatory scheme (2), conditional requirement (2). 1 accreditation body is listed for this jurisdiction. Each record below carries its legal instrument, who it binds, and the date it was last verified against its primary source.
- Records
- 4
- Accreditation bodies
- 1
National accreditation
Mandatory and regulatory records
Verified from primary sources, grouped by how binding each one is. None of these is a certificate; each carries the instrument it comes from and the date it was last checked.
How this jurisdiction is structured
Three SE-authorized accreditation entities
Under the Ley de Infraestructura de la Calidad (LIC), Art. 4 fracc. IX, the Secretaría de Economía (SE) authorizes "Entidades de Acreditación." Three are currently authorized: Entidad Mexicana de Acreditación (ema, authorized 15 January 1999; labs, testing/calibration, certification and inspection bodies), Mexicana de Acreditación (MAAC, authorized 2020/2022; management-system certification per NMX-EC-17021-1, labs, inspection bodies), and SIAAC (authorized 2022; inspection, system/product and person certification). An ISO 9001/14001/45001 certificate accredited by any of the three is equally legitimate — "only ema is valid" is false.
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ema is an IAAC MLA signatory
ema is listed as an IAAC (Inter American Accreditation Cooperation) MLA signatory, covering 17 scope families (ISO/IEC 17025, 15189, 17020, 17065, 17021, 17024, 17029). MAAC's and SIAAC's own international-recognition status has not been separately confirmed.
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Employer's general duty — RFSST
The Reglamento Federal de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo (RFSST), Art. 1, applies with "observancia general en todo el territorio nacional." Art. 7 requires an employer to maintain a Diagnóstico de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo and a Programa de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo based on it, plus specific programmes/manuals/procedures for safe and emergency operation. The Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS) enforces it.
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COFEPRIS and SENASICA are separate regulators
COFEPRIS (Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios), an órgano desconcentrado of the Secretaría de Salud under Ley General de Salud Art. 17 Bis, covers human-health-risk products (food, pharma, cosmetics). SENASICA, under a separate law (Ley Federal de Sanidad Animal), covers animal/plant health and animal-origin product facilities. The two are legally and organisationally distinct — not interchangeable.
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Incentive and support programs
One program is verified and active as of 2026-08-21 — our review round explicitly stripped its own leaked percentage figures from this record; no rate, allowance percentage or budget cap is published here pending re-verification.
Plan México fiscal incentives
- Funder
- Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP), evaluated by a Comité de Evaluación with Secretaría de Economía and Consejo de Desarrollo Regional representation
- What it provides
- A decree (DOF 21 January 2025, in force from 22 January 2025) creating two instruments: an accelerated/immediate depreciation ("deducción inmediata") for new fixed-asset investments, and an additional deduction ("deducción adicional") for increased training and innovation spending.
- Eligibility
- Businesses investing in new fixed assets or increasing training/innovation spending in Mexico; full conditions not yet confirmed.
Not yet confirmed: Rates, caps and the total budget ceiling are confirmed to exist in the decree but are not published here pending re-verification (MX-VQ-16).
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Trade & market access
26 agreements
| Agreement | Parties | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina-Mexico | Argentina | In force 1987-01-01 | |
| Brazil-Mexico | Brazil | In force 2003-05-02 | |
| Chile-Mexico | Chile | In force 1999-08-01 | |
| Colombia-Mexico | Colombia | In force 1995-01-01 | |
| CPTPP | 11 members | In force 2018-12-30 | |
| CPTPP - United Kingdom's accession | United Kingdom | In force 2024-12-15 | |
| Ecuador-Mexico | Ecuador | In force 1983-05-01 | |
| EFTA-Mexico | Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland | In force 2001-07-01 | |
| EU-Mexico | European Union | In force 2000-07-01 | services entry into force 2000-10-01 |
| GSTP | Developing countries | In force 1989-04-19 | |
| Israel-Mexico | Israel | In force 2000-07-01 | |
| Japan-Mexico | Japan | In force 2005-04-01 | |
| LAIA - Cuba's accession | Cuba | In force 1999-08-26 | |
| Latin American Integration Association (LAIA) | Latin American countries | In force 1981-03-18 | |
| Mexico-Bolivia | Bolivia | In force 2010-06-07 | |
| Mexico-Central America | Central American countries | In force 2012-09-01 | |
| Mexico-Cuba | Cuba | In force 2001-02-28 | |
| Mexico-Panama | Panama | In force 2015-07-01 | |
| Mexico-Paraguay | Paraguay | In force 1984-01-01 | |
| Mexico-Uruguay | Uruguay | In force 2004-07-15 | |
| Pacific Alliance | Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico | In force 2016-05-01 | |
| Pacific Alliance-Singapore | Singapore | In force 2025-05-03 | |
| Peru-Mexico | Peru | In force 2012-02-01 | |
| Protocol Relating to Trade Negotiations (PTN) | Multiple | In force 1973-02-11 | |
| United Kingdom-Mexico | United Kingdom | In force 2021-06-01 | |
| USMCA / CUSMA / T-MEC | United States, Canada | In force 2020-07-01 | date cross-verified from all three parties' own sources |
WTO Regional Trade Agreements Information System (RTAIS) · retrieved