Mexico is the largest hotel development market in Latin America, and by a wide margin. Lodging Econometrics data puts Mexico at roughly 234 projects and 33,131 rooms in the pipeline \u2014 about a third of all projects and rooms in the entire regional pipeline. Mexico City leads at city level with around 25 projects and 2,737 rooms; Riviera Maya carries roughly 14 projects and 1,606 rooms, and Canc\u00fan, Riviera Maya and Los Cabos together have more than 5,000 rooms under construction due to reach the market between 2025 and 2027. Named openings include The Ritz-Carlton, Riviera Maya with around 300 keys and a Park Hyatt on the coast between Canc\u00fan and Puerto Morelos.<\/p>\n
That is a lot of commercial kitchens. It is also a market that changed its import rules on 1 January 2026, which is why a 2025 landed-cost model will now mislead you. This guide covers what changed, what it costs to land equipment, what certification you need, and the one technical issue that catches almost every buyer sourcing from Asia: Mexico runs at 60 Hz.<\/p>\n
In late December 2025 Mexico published a decree amending the general import and export tax law (the LIGIE\/GIETL schedule), in force from 1 January 2026. The headline points, as reported by trade counsel and customs advisories:<\/p>\n
Here is the practical consequence, and it is the single most useful thing in this guide: commercial kitchen equipment spans many tariff lines, and whether a given line was touched is a fracci\u00f3n-by-fracci\u00f3n question.<\/strong> A combi oven, a walk-in condensing unit, a stainless work table and a dough mixer sit under different headings and may now attract very different duty. Do not budget from a category-level assumption in either direction.<\/p>\n Before you place an order, have your Mexican customs broker confirm the fracci\u00f3n arancelaria<\/em> and current IGI rate for each model on your equipment schedule, in writing, against the current schedule. Ask your factory for a model-by-model HS classification to hand the broker \u2014 we issue one with every quotation for Mexico, because the classification is what drives the number, and getting it from the factory rather than reverse-engineering it from a photo removes a week of back-and-forth.<\/p>\n Three layers sit on top of your customs value. Customs value is normally CIF \u2014 if you are still deciding between FOB and CIF terms, our gu\u00eda de Incoterms para compradores de equipamiento de cocina<\/a> covers where that risk sits.<\/p>\nWhat actually lands: IGI, DTA and IVA<\/h2>\n