# Mexico’s duties of up to 50 percent on goods from non-FTA countries take effect

Date: 2026

## The fact

On 1 January 2026 duties of up to 50 percent on around 1,400 categories of goods from countries without a free-trade agreement with Mexico, chiefly China, took effect. The measure had been proposed in September 2025 inside the 2026 budget.

## Context

Plan México sat as parent industrial weather. Neighbouring US tariff file is a counterpart. She did not write a US schedule.

Plan México 13 January 2025 is the parent.

The President of Mexico heads the federal executive, promulgates laws Congress sends, and commands the armed forces. She does not write an INE tally, a SCJN judgment, a US tariff schedule, or a cartel killing by herself. Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s earlier statutes are not her later decrees unless she re-enacted them. A disappearance print is not a unique due-process coefficient.

## Evidence and sources

Presidency of Mexico carries the official instrument or communique. DOF records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power) versus industrial policy: a completed import-duty shock aimed at China-origin goods.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1 January 2026 effective date of the non-FTA duty package, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later CPI coefficient from that morning, or that every Chinese good thereby vanished.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

She proposed and promulgated. Customs implements.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Mexico’s duties of up to 50 percent on goods from non-FTA countries take effect, not a later speech about Mexico’s duties of up to 50 percent on goods from non-FTA countries take effect.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Mexico’s duties of up to 50 percent on goods from non-FTA countries take effect on 2026-01-01 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of Mexico communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Mexico’s duties of up to 50 percent on goods from non-FTA countries take effect into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Congress approved the budget measure. She proposed and promulgated. Customs implements. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Claudia Sheinbaum: https://factrail.ai/people/claudia-sheinbaum

## Drivers

- Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power
- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.gob.mx/presidencia
- https://www.dof.gob.mx/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mx-china-tariffs-2026