Manifestación de Valor 2026: what importers need to know
A plain-language breakdown of the SAT requirement, what documentation you need, and how to avoid the most common compliance gaps.
What it is, in plain language
The Manifestación de Valor is a requirement from SAT, Mexico's tax authority, for companies that import goods. The importer declares the value of the goods and supports it with documentation about the purchase and the costs of bringing them into the country. In practice: for each import, you need to show, with documents, what you bought, from whom, for how much, and what it cost to get it here.
This guide does not cover deadlines, thresholds, or legal references. For those, work with your customs broker and legal team. It covers the operational side: why the filing is hard, and how to make it routine.
Why it is hard in practice
The documents behind the filing are the same documents behind every import: purchase order, commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading, certificates, and the costs along the way.
In most companies they are scattered. The order is in the ERP. The invoice is in a buyer's inbox. The bill of lading came from the forwarder by email. The certificate is in a shared folder, possibly an older version.
So the filing is prepared by gathering data manually from multiple sources, every time. The broker asks for information that lives in different departments, and someone chases it. The most common compliance gap is not a missing rule. It is a missing document, discovered late.
Each department has its own version of the information, and nobody speaks the same language.
What "ready" looks like
Every document is linked to its order and shipment. Opening the order shows the full set.
Every document has a version history. When a supplier reissues an invoice, the current version is obvious and the previous one is still there for the audit trail.
The broker can see what they need. Role-based access lets the customs broker retrieve documents on their shipments directly, which cuts the email that slows every filing.
How Quloi supports it
Quloi keeps every import document centralized, order-linked, and audit-ready, with version history and access for buyers, suppliers, forwarders, and brokers. Documents that arrive by email are routed to the right order.
One customer did not adopt Quloi with audits in mind. Documentation ready for SAT, for internal audits, and for historical traceability turned out to be one of the clearest values they got. Their users cut the time to locate documents by more than half.
That is the goal: a filing you assemble from the order, not from an inbox.