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Exhibit 99.01

January 18, 2024

Via EDGAR

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporate Finance

Office of Trade & Services

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Attn:

Mr. Scott Stringer

    

Mr. Lyn Shenk

    

Ms. Rucha Pandit

    

Mr. Dietrich King

 

Re:

BBB Foods Inc.

    

Registration Statement on Form F-1

    

Filed January 18, 2024

    

CIK No. 0001978954

    

Request for Waiver and Representation under Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F

Dear Mr. Stringer, Ms. Shenk, Ms. Pandit and Mr. King:

The undersigned, BBB Foods Inc., a foreign private issuer organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (the “Company”), is submitting this letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) in connection with the filing of the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1 on January 18, 2023 (the “Registration Statement”) relating to a proposed initial public offering and listing of the Company’s Class A common shares in the United States.

The Company has included in the Registration Statement its audited consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 and for each of the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, and unaudited interim consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2023 and for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.

The Company respectfully requests that the Commission waive the requirement of Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F, which states that in the case of a company’s initial public offering, the registration statement on Form F-1 must contain audited financial statements of a date not older than 12 months from the date of the offering. See also Division of Corporation Finance, Financial Reporting Manual, Section 6220.3.

The Company is submitting this waiver request pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F, which provides that “[a] company may comply with only the 15-month requirement in this item if the company is able to represent that it is not required to comply with the 12-month requirement in any other jurisdiction outside the United States and that complying with


the 12-month requirement is impracticable or involves undue hardship.” See also the 2004 release entitled International Reporting and Disclosure Issues in the Division of Corporation Finance (available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/internatl/cfirdissues1104.htm) by the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Commission at Section III.B.c, which states that:

“the instruction indicates that the staff will waive the 12-month requirement where it is not applicable in the registrant’s other filing jurisdictions and is impracticable or involves undue hardship. As a result, we expect that the vast majority of IPOs will be subject only to the 15-month rule. The only times that we anticipate audited financial statements will be filed under the 12-month rule are when the registrant must comply with the rule in another jurisdiction, or when those audited financial statements are otherwise readily available.”

In connection with this waiver request, the Company represents to the Commission that:

1.    The Company is not currently a public reporting company in any jurisdiction.

2.    The Company is not required by any jurisdiction outside the United States to prepare financial statements audited under any generally accepted auditing standards for any interim period.

3.    Full compliance with Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F at present is impracticable and involves undue hardship for the Company.

4.    The Company does not anticipate that its audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023 will be available until April 2024.

5.    The Company will not seek effectiveness of the Registration Statement if its audited financial statements are older than 15 months at the time of the Company’s initial public offering.

The Company is submitting this letter as an exhibit to the Registration Statement pursuant to Instruction 2 to Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F.

Sincerely,

BBB Foods Inc.

/s/ Eduardo Pizzuto

Eduardo Pizzuto

Chief Financial Officer

 

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