2026 BYD Sealion 06 EV and 2026 Seagull on the Manzanillo container apron

Mexico · Manzanillo

The Pacific discharge is settled. The decree already names the column.

A China-built car for a Mexican importer comes off at Manzanillo, the country’s largest container port. On this file the cars are the 2026 Sealion 06 EV and the 2026 Seagull, which dealers already sell as Dolphin Mini. Before the ship leaves, the factory papers, the TIGIE fraction and the VIN have to be the line your agente aduanal will number.

01

Name the car

Sealion 06 EV or Seagull, and the powertrain the invoice will actually say.

02

Read the column

The decree puts the listed 8703 lines in import column 50. IVA sits on top.

03

Sail for Manzanillo

Lázaro Cárdenas only if that corridor is already yours. Veracruz only if the file already lives on the Gulf.

04

Service that VIN

Parts and a China-side session after the pedimento, on the chassis you received.

Parts against the pedimento VIN

A Sealion 06 EV and a Dolphin Mini do not share a parts list. The quote uses the VIN your agente aduanal numbered.

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A China-side session, after release

Certified dealers open a remote diagnostic on units bought here, including when the Mexican portal will not take the export ECU. Beta. It does not clear the car.

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Handover in a Mexican dealer showroom: 2026 Seagull and Sealion 06 EV, with the flags of China and Mexico on floor stands

A car the floor already knows

A dealer ordering a Sealion 06 EV or a Dolphin Mini is not introducing a body the showroom has to explain from a brochure. The purchasing advantage is a Pacific port that already discharges this trade, and an import column you can read before the proforma is signed. What deserves the argument is the NOM path, and who will be the importer of record. A workshop group that will keep the car is a different buyer from a trader who only wants the box.

What the decree does

The decree in the Diario Oficial of 29 December 2025 has been in force since 1 January 2026. It sets the import column at 50 for 8703.80.01 (electric, except used), 8703.60.99, 8703.40.99, and the listed gasoline and diesel residual lines. The export column is exempt. The published transitory articles start the decree on 1 January 2026 and set no end date. A draft that named 31 December 2026 is not the text in force. Article 4 lets Economía open a supply mechanism later. That is not an exemption this desk can book. IVA sits on top. https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5777376&fecha=29/12/2025

Papers that have to agree

The commercial invoice, the packing list and the ocean bill of lading travel with three factory documents. The conformity certificate states the category under GB/T 15089-2016: M1 for a passenger car, N1 for a light goods vehicle. The environmental information sheet is the emissions identity of that VIN. The consistency certificate is the type as approved — dimensions, mass, powertrain — which is what the pedimento has to describe. A battery car is booked as Class 9, UN 3171. We prepare that China file and we sit with your agente aduanal before the booking. We do not number the pedimento, and we do not rewrite the invoice. After the advance payment the factory issues exactly these three papers. The China compulsory product certificate and the consistency certificate are the same paper, not a fourth file. These China papers do not replace the local homologation and they are not a duty rate.

After the levante

CarParts quotes lamps, clips, cooling parts and modules against the VIN on the pedimento, not against a similar listing from another market. CarLive is a remote session on the China network for certified dealers, on units bought through this desk, including when the local portal will not open the car. It reads the car. It does not move IGI, IVA or a NOM. This desk is for importers and workshop groups. It is not a retail sale, and it is not a route for leaving a China-spec car in the United States.

B2B orientation. IGI, IVA, DTA and the NOM path change. Not Mexican or U.S. legal advice. Your agente aduanal files the pedimento.

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