Information for Travellers (As of Feb. 2005)

 

ALLOWED TOURIST IMPORT

REGULATED TOURIST IMPORT

PROHIBITED IMPORT

It can commit products in volumes for consumption or personal use (this does not typically apply to boats because they carry a lot more food) without risk of introduction of some plague or disease exists. Subject to visual inspection: Tobacco to smoke, articles of polished bone , tanned and finished skins, dry foods, cooked, packaged and bottled (as long as they do not come from banned countries). Dogs and cats (2 maximum) with certificate of health and record of effective vaccinations.

Toasted coffee, dried plum, packaged or packed spices, medicinal dry herbs.

Preserved fruits and vegetables or cooked, dried fruits.

From the U.S.A. and Canada: pig meat, or cooled, congealed, canned, cooked and processed, paté tinned sterile of pig and bird, milk and cheeses; all these products with their original packing and labels.

The products can be introduced depending on the country of origin (you will be required to show receipts to prove where it was purchased)

Birds and their products.

Skins without tanning.

Vegetable material (seeds, sprouts, etc.) fruits, vegetables, flowers, cereals, plants, etc. Milk products, bees and their products (except honey), fresh meat, dried meat, tinned or congealed and meat products (cured, salted, mature smoked, etc.), that do not come from countries that are banned.

 

Biological medicines and products for veterinary use. Lobsters, shrimps, crabs, crustaceans.  Objects that present/display rest of organic products (blood or earth) like boots, suits of bullfighter, lances, stones, etc.).

By no reason these products to the country can be introduced, since they represent a high risk of introduction from plagues and diseases our country:

 

Stuffed hay earth, straw and packages and adornments of straw, fertilization products of farming types.

 

Powders of animal origin.

Fresh, dry, tinned or congealed meat, meat products (inserted, salty, smoked, etc.), that come from banned countries.

(NOTE:  The following links are all in Spanish, however, they will be displayed in English via altavista's babblefish website.)

In order to know which are the countries are banned see, the Directory section "of Offices of Inspection of Sanidad Agropecuaria (OISAS) " in this page contains the telephone numbers of the Office of Inspection of Farming Health nearer its locality, consulting.

Information for people who travel to Mexico in company of pets, consult:

What to do if you want to travel to Mexico with your pets!

 

But information on proceedings of international arrival, products and restrictions of health and agricultural  inspection, as well as of other authorities, also are available in the Program Of the same country.