Tax Free, Duty Free Stores in El Paso
There are three stores on Stanton Street in El Paso
where you can buy liquor and American cigarrettes for excellent
prices and pay no taxes or import fees, but you must be going
to Mexico. The store pictured here, Guerras, is exactly
one block north of the Stanton Street Bridge on the west side of
the street. American cigarrettes were only $14 a carton as
of March, 2004. They carry Benson and Hedges, Marboros, and
a few other brands. Prices on liquor are not discounted quite
as heavily, but the prices are substantially lower than buying the
same liquor in the U.S.
There are two Jeta stores. They both carry
the same line of products. The one pictured here is at the
very foot of the Stanton Street Bridge at 919 S. Stanton (tele:
915-544-2500). The other location is two blocks north of the
bridge on the west side of the street.
Whichever store you buy from, the process is the
same. You will be required to give your name, and you will
not be allowed to leave the store with your products.
You will be given a receipt and asked to wait at the foot of the
bridge in front of the small building you see pictured in the lower
left hand portion of the photograph.
Just to put things in perspective, here is another
photograph showing the bridge with an arrow pointing to the location
of Jeta pictured above and the pickup stand. The armed guards
at the pickup stand are there to make certain you actually do go
over the bridge and into Mexico. Trying to leave the area
with the products you bought in the tax free, duty free stores is
strictly against the law. Bringing these products back
with you to the United States is permitted, but you will
have to pay the usual import fees to the State of Texas when you
leave Mexico.
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