Sector: Social Services
Sub-Sector:
Industry Classification:
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202) Local Presence (Article 1205) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment
The United States reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the provision of public law enforcement and correctional services, and the following services to the extent they are social services established or maintained for a public purpose: income security or insurance, social security or insurance, social welfare, public education, public training, health, and child care.
Existing Measures:
Sector: Minority Affairs
Sub-Sector:
Industry Classification:
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202) Local Presence (Article 1205) Performance Requirements (Article 1106) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment
The United States reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure according rights or preferences to socially or economically disadvantaged minorities, including corporations organized under the laws of the State of Alaska in accordance with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Existing Measures: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 43 U.S.C. §§ 1601 et seq.
Sector: Professional Services
Sub-Sector: Legal Services
Industry Classification: SIC 8111 Legal Services
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202) Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103, 1203) Local Presence (Article 1205) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment
Subject to Schedule of the United States, Annex VI, page VIU2, the United States reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the provision of legal services, including foreign legal consultancy services, by persons of Mexico.
Existing Measures:
Sector: Publishing
Sub-Sector: Newspaper Publishing
Industry Classification: SIC 2711 Newspapers: Publishing, or Publishing and Printing
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102) Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1103)
Description: Investment
Subject to Article 2106, the United States reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords equivalent treatment to persons of any country that limits ownership by persons of the United States in an enterprise engaged in the publication of daily newspapers primarily written for audiences and distributed in that country.
For purposes of this reservation, daily newspapers are newspapers published at least five days each week.
Existing Measures:
Sector: Transportation
Sub-Sector: Water Transportation
Industry Classification: SIC 091 Commercial Fishing (limited to fishing vessels and fishing operations within the Exclusive Economic Zone)
SIC 1629 Heavy Construction, Not Elsewhere Classified (limited to marine dredging)
SIC 4412 Deep Sea Foreign Transportation of Freight (limited to promotional programs for U.S.flagged vessels)
SIC 4424 Deep Sea Domestic Transportation of Freight (includes coastwise transportation of freight, deep sea domestic freight transportation, intercoastal transportation of freight, water transportation of freight to non-contiguous territories)
SIC 4432 Freight Transportation on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway
SIC 4449 Water Transportation of Freight, Not Elsewhere Classified (includes canal barge operations, canal freight transportation, intracoastal freight transportation, lake freight transportation except on the Great Lakes, log rafting and towing, river freight transportation except on the St. Lawrence Seaway, transportation of freight on bays and sounds of the oceans)
SIC 4481 Deep Sea Transportation of Passengers, Except by Ferry (limited to promotional programs for U.S.flagged vessels)
SIC 4482 Ferries
SIC 4489 Water Transportation of Passengers, Not Elsewhere Classified (includes airboats, swamp buggy rides, excursion boat operations, passenger water transportation on rivers and canals, sightseeing boats, water taxis)
SIC 4491 Marine Cargo Handling (limited to crew activities aboard vessels transporting supplies and cargo within U.S. territorial waters and longshore work performed by crew affected by reciprocity restrictions)
SIC 4492 Towing and Tugboat Services
SIC 4499 Water Transportation Services, Not Elsewhere Classified (limited to cargo salvaging, chartering of commercial boats, lighterage, bunkering, marine salvage, pilotage, steamship leasing, cable laying)
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202) Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103, 1203) Local Presence (Article 1205) Performance Requirements (Article 1106) Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment
The United States reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the provision of maritime transportation services and the operation of U.S.flagged vessels, including the following:
(a) requirements for investment in, ownership and control of, and operation of vessels and other marine structures, including drill rigs, in maritime cabotage services, including maritime cabotage services performed in the domestic offshore trades, the coastwise trades, U.S. territorial waters, waters above the continental shelf and in the inland waterways;
(b) requirements for investment in, ownership and control of, and operation of U.S.flagged vessels in foreign trades;
(c) requirements for investment in, ownership or control of, and operation of vessels engaged in fishing and related activities in U.S. territorial waters and the Exclusive Economic Zone;
(d) requirements related to documenting a vessel under the U.S. flag;
(e) promotional programs, including tax benefits, available for shipowners, operators and vessels meeting certain requirements;
(f) certification, licensing and citizenship requirements for crew members on U.S.flagged vessels;
(g) manning requirements for U.S.flagged vessels;
(h) all matters under the jurisdiction of the Federal Maritime Commission;
(i) negotiation and implementation of bilateral and other international maritime agreements and understandings;
(j) limitations on longshore work performed by crew members;
(k) tonnage duties and light money assessments for entering U.S. waters; and
(l) certification, licensing and citizenship requirements for pilots performing pilotage services in U.S. territorial waters.
The following activities are not included in this reservation:
(a) vessel construction and repair; and
(b) landside aspects of port activities, including operation and maintenance of docks, loading and unloading of vessels directly to or from land, marine cargo handling, operation and maintenance of piers, ship cleaning, stevedoring, transfer of cargo between vessels and trucks, trains, pipelines and wharves, waterfront terminal operations, boat cleaning, canal operation, dismantling of vessels, operation of marine railways for drydocking, marine surveyors, except cargo, marine wrecking of vessels for scrap and ship classification societies.
Existing Measures: Merchant Marine Act of 1920, §§ 19 and 27, 46 App. U.S.C. § 876 and § 883 et seq.
Jones Act Waiver Statute, 64 Stat 1120, 46 App. U.S.C., note preceding Section 1
Shipping Act of 1916, 46 App. U.S.C. §§ 802 and 808
Merchant Marine Act of 1936, 46 App. U.S.C. §§ 1151 et seq., 1160-61, 1171 et seq., 1241(b), 1241-1, 1244, and 1271 et seq.
Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946, 50 U.S.C. App. § 1738
46 App. U.S.C. §§ 121, 292 and 316
46 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq. and 31301 et seq.
46 U.S.C. §§ 8904 and 31328(2)
Passenger Vessel Act, 46 App. U.S.C. § 289
42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.; 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.; 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
46 U.S.C. §§ 3301 et seq., 3701 et seq., 8103 and 12107(b)
Shipping Act of 1984, 46 App. U.S.C. §§ 1708 and 1712
Nicholson Act, 46 App. U.S.C. §§ 251
Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act of 1987, 46 U.S.C. § 2101 and 46 U.S.C. § 12108
43 U.S.C. § 1841
22 U.S.C. § 1980
Intercoastal Shipping Act, 46 U.S.C. § App. 843
46 U.S.C. § 9302, 46 U.S.C. § 8502; Agreement Governing the Operation of Pilotage on the Great Lakes, Exchange of Notes at Ottawa, August 23, 1978, and March 29, 1979, TIAS 9445
Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1801 et seq.
19 U.S.C. § 1466
North Pacific Anadramous Stocks Convention Act of 1972, P.L. 102-587; Oceans Act of 1992, Title VII
Tuna Convention Act, 16 U.S.C. § 951 et seq.
South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988, 16 U.S.C. § 973 et seq.
Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982, 16 U.S.C. § 773 et seq.
Atlantic Tunas Convention Act, 16 U.S.C. § 971 et seq.
Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act of 1984, 16 U.S.C. § 2431 et seq.
Pacific Salmon Treaty Act of 1985, 16 U.S.C. § 3631 et seq.
Annex III. Activities Reserved to the State (Chapter 11)
Annex III. Schedule of Mexico
Section A. Activities Reserved to the Mexican State
Mexico reserves the right to perform exclusively, and to refuse to permit the establishment of investments in, the following activities:
1. Petroleum, Other Hydrocarbons and Basic Petrochemicals
(a) Description of activities
(i) exploration and exploitation of crude oil and natural gas; refining or processing of crude oil and natural gas; and production of artificial gas, basic petrochemicals and their feedstocks and pipelines; and
(ii) foreign trade; transportation, storage and distribution up to and including first hand sales of the following goods: crude oil; natural and artificial gas; goods covered by Chapter Six (Energy and Basic Petrochemicals) obtained from the refining or processing of crude oil and natural gas; and basic petrochemicals.
(b) Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 27 y 28
Ley Reglamentaria del Artículo 27 Constitucional en el Ramo del Petróleo
Ley Orgánica de Petróleos Mexicanos y Organismos Subsidiarios
2. Electricity
(a) Description of activities: the supply of electricity as a public service in Mexico, including, the generation, transmission, transformation, distribution and sale of electricity.
(b) Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 27, 28
Ley del Servicio Público de Energía Eléctrica
3. Nuclear Power and Treatment of Radioactive Minerals
(a) Description of activities: exploration, exploitation and processing of radioactive minerals, the nuclear fuel cycle, the generation of nuclear energy, the transportation and storage of nuclear waste, the use and reprocessing of nuclear fuel and the regulation of their applications for other purposes and the production of heavy water.
(b) Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 27, 28
Ley Reglamentaria del Artículo 27 Constitucional en Materia Nuclear
4. Satellite Communications
(a) Description of activities: the establishment, operation and ownership of satellite systems and earth stations with international links.
(b) Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 28
Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación
5. Telegraph Services
Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 28
Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación
6. Radiotelegraph Services
Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 28
Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación
7. Postal Services
(a) Description of activities: operation, administration and organization of first class mail.
(b) Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 28
Ley del Servicio Postal Mexicano
8. Railroads
(a) Description of activities: operation, administration and control of traffic within the Mexican railway system; supervision and management of railway rightofway; operation, construction and maintenance of basic railway infrastructure.
(b) Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 28
Ley Orgánica de Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
9. Issuance of Bills (currency) and Minting of Coinage
Measures:
Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 25, 28
Ley Orgánica del Banco de México
Ley Orgánica de la Casa de Moneda de México
Ley Monetaria de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
10. Control, Inspection and Surveillance of Maritime and Inland Ports
Measures:
Ley de Navegación y Comercio Marítimos
Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación
11. Control, Inspection and Surveillance of Airports and Heliports
Measures:
Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación