Salon C-15: where the IMMEX board reviews USMCA compliance and the COO kit arrives before the pedimento
Salon C-15 sits on the 11th floor of the Norte corridor where the IMMEX companies (Industria Manufacturera, Maquiladora y de Servicios de Exportación) run their board meetings, USMCA compliance reviews and cross-border operations planning: nine horseshoe-arranged seats with a continuous table, a lectern for the plant COO or the IMMEX corporate director general, a five-metre LED screen with simultaneous projection of the export plan and the Mexico-US operations cap table, an annexed room with a phone line for calls with the customs broker, the USMCA broker and the IMMEX accountant where applicable, a sealed chamber for the pedimento and USMCA compliance annexes and a closed kitchen with bilingual service. This is where the annual export plans of the IMMEX plants of Bajio, Sonora, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas get approved, where the Mexico-US operations cap table gets reviewed, where the USMCA regional content commitments get confirmed, where the border-crossing logistics get coordinated and where the SAT visits to the plants get handled. What separates Salon C-15 is the pedimento ritual: the COO kit enters before the pedimento, exits signed for by each board member at close and lets the customs broker archive the USMCA compliance without the merch pulling attention from the annexes.