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Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting waste water management, including but not limited to the collection, treatment and disposal of waste water.

Existing Measures: Code of Practice on Sewerage and Sanitary Works

Sewerage and Drainage Act, Cap. 294, 2001 Rev Ed

Sector: Postal Services

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Performance Requirements (Article 9.10) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11) Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description:

Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services: Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to a Public Postal Licensee.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Telecommunications Services

Sub-Sector: Telecommunications services

Industry Classification:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Market Access (Article 10.5)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords treatment to persons of another Party equivalent to any measure adopted or maintained by that other Party limiting ownership by persons of Singapore enterprises engaged in the provision of public mobile and wireless communications in the territory of that other Party, including:

(a) Public Radiocommunication Services (Public Radiocommunication Services refer to Maritime and Aeronautical radiocommunication services);

(b) Public Cellular Mobile Telephone Service (PCMTS);

(c) Public Radio Paging Services (PRPS);

(d) Public Trunked Radio Services (PTRS);

(e) Public Mobile Data Services (PMDS);

(f) Public Mobile Broadband Multimedia Services; and

(g) Public Fixed-Wireless Broadband Multimedia Services.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Trade Services

Sub-Sector: Supply of potable water for human consumption

Industry Classification: CPC 18000 Natural Water

The sectors listed above apply only insofar as they relate to the supply of potable water

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Performance Requirements (Article 9.10) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11) Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting the supply of potable water.

For greater certainty, this entry does not affect the supply of bottled water.

Existing Measures: Public Utilities Act, Cap. 261, 2002 Rev Ed

Sector: Transport Services

Sub-Sector: Air transport services

Industry Classification:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11) Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting cross-border supply of:

(a) aircraft repair and maintenance services during which an aircraft is withdrawn from service, excluding so-called line maintenance;

(b) the selling and marketing of air transport services;

(c) computer reservation system services;

(d) airport operation services; and

(e) ground handling services.

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting investments in air transport related services.

Existing Measures: Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009

Sector: Specialty Air Services

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Market Access (Article 10.5)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting the supply of specialty air services.

Existing Measures:

Sector : Transport Services

Sub-Sector: Land transport services – Passenger transport services, including but not limited to passenger transportation services by railway, urban and suburban regular transportation services, taxi services; bus and rail station services and ticketing services related to passenger transport services

Passenger Transport Services are services which are used by and accessible to members of the public for the purposes of transporting themselves within Singapore.

Industry Classification:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Market Access (Article 10.5)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting the supply of passenger transport services.

Existing Measures: Rapid Transit Systems Act, Cap. 263A

Land Transport Authority of Singapore Act, Cap. 158A, 1996 Rev Ed

Public Transport Council Act, Cap. 259B, 2012 Rev Ed

Road Traffic Act, Cap. 276, 2004 Rev Ed

Sector: Transport Services

Sub-Sector: Land transport services – railway and road freight transportation, Supporting services for railway and road transport services

Industry Classification:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting the supply of land transport services as set out above.

This entry does not apply to:

(a) maintenance and repair services of motor vehicles (CPC 61120);

(b) maintenance and repair services of parts of motor vehicles (CPC 88**) (2); and

(c) parking services (CPC 74430).

Existing Measures:

(2) In this Annex, “**” indicates that the service specified constitutes only a part of the total range of activities covered by the CPC concordance.

Sector: Transport Services

Sub-Sector: Services auxiliary to all modes of transport

Industry Classification: CPC 742 Storage and warehousing services CPC 742** Container station and depot services CPC 748 Freight transport agency services CPC 7123** Inland trucking services

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Performance Requirements (Article 9.10) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11) Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords equivalent treatment to storage and warehousing, freight forwarding, inland trucking, container station and depot services of another Party.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Transport Services

Sub-Sector: Maritime transport services – Towing and tug assistance; provisioning, fuelling and watering; garbage collection and ballast waste disposal; port captain’s services; navigation aids; emergency repair facilities; anchorage; and other shore-based operational services essential to ship operations, including communications, water and electrical supplies.

Industry Classification: CPC 74510 Port and Waterway Operation Services CPC 74520 Pilotage and Berthing Services CPC 74530 Navigation Aid Services CPC 74590 Other Supporting Services for Water Transport

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Performance Requirements (Article 9.10) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11) Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting the supply of towing and tug assistance; provisioning, fuelling and watering; garbage collection and ballast waste disposal; port captain’s services; navigation aids; emergency repair facilities; anchorage; and other shore-based operational services essential to ship operations, including communications, water and electrical supplies.

For greater certainty, no measures shall be applied which deny international maritime transport operators reasonable and non-discriminatory access to the above port services.

This entry does not apply to:

(a) international transport (freight and passengers) excluding cabotage transport (CPC 7211**, 7212**);

(b) international towage (CPC 7214**);

(c) rental of vessels with crew (CPC 7213); and

(d) other supporting and auxiliary services (including catering) (CPC 749**).

Existing Measures: Maritime and Port of Singapore Act, Cap. 170A, Section 41 (Part VIII)

Sector: Transport Services

Sub-Sector: Transportation services via pipeline

Industry Classification: Transportation of goods via pipeline of goods such as chemical and petroleum products and petroleum, and other related products

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 10.4) Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Cross-Border Trade in Services

Only service suppliers with a local presence shall be allowed to provide transportation services via pipeline of goods such as chemical and petroleum products and petroleum, and other related products.

Singapore reserves the right and flexibility to modify or increase the list of the chemical and petroleum products, and other related products that are subject to this entry.

Existing Measures: Administrative

Sector: Trade Services

Sub-Sector: Wholesale trade services and retail trade services of alcoholic beverages and tobacco

Industry Classification: 

Obligations Concerned: Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure affecting the supply of wholesale and retail trade services of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Energy

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4) Performance Requirements (Article 9.10) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11) Market Access (Article 10.5) Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure in order to prohibit, manage or control the generation, use, distribution and retail of nuclear energy, including setting conditions for natural persons or juridical persons to do so.

Existing Measures:

Sector: All

Sub-Sector: Industry Classification:

Obligations Concerned: Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords differential treatment to countries under any bilateral or multilateral international agreement in force or signed prior to the date of entry into force of this Agreement.

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords differential treatment to ASEAN member states under any ASEAN agreement open to participation by any ASEAN member state, in force or signed after the date of entry into force of this Agreement.

Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords differential treatment to countries under any international agreement in force or signed after the date of entry into force of this Agreement involving:

(a) aviation matters;

(b) maritime matters and services auxiliary to maritime matters;

(c) port matters;

(d) land transport matters; and

(e) telecommunication matters.

Existing Measures:

SCHEDULE OF THE UNITED STATES

Sector: Communications

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

The United States reserves the right to:

(a) adopt or maintain any measure that accords differential treatment to persons of other countries due to application of reciprocity measures or through international agreements involving sharing of the radio spectrum, guaranteeing market access, or national treatment with respect to the one-way satellite transmission of direct-to-home (DTH) and direct broadcasting satellite (DBS) television services and digital audio services; and

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