Level of Government: Federal

Measures: Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación, Libro I, Capítulos I, II y III; Libro III, Capítulos I-XV

Ley para el Desarrollo de la Marina Mercante, Capítulos I, III

Ley de Navegación y Comercio Marítimos, Libro II, Título Unico, Capítulos I, III

Ley para Promover la Inversión Mexicana y Regular la Inversión Extranjera, Capítulos I, II, III, V, VI

Reglamento de la Ley para Promover la Inversión Mexicana y Regular la Inversión Extranjera, Título I; Título II, Capítulo I; Título IV; Título V; Título VIII, Capítulos I, II, III, V; Título IX, Capítulo I

Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment

Maritime cabotage services, including off-shore maritime services, are reserved to Mexican-flagged vessels. A waiver may be granted by the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes where Mexicanflagged vessels are not able to provide such services. Only Mexican-flagged vessels may transport cargo owned by the Federal Government.

Foreign flagged vessels may provide international maritime services in the territory of Mexico on the basis of reciprocity with the relevant country. Only Mexicanflagged towing vessels may provide towing services from Mexican ports to foreign ports. Where such towing vessels are not able to provide such services, the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes may provide permits to foreign-flagged towing vessels. Only a Mexican national or a Mexican enterprise with a foreigners' exclusion clause may own vessels registered and flagged as Mexican. All members of the board of directors and managers of such enterprise must be Mexican nationals.

Investment

Prior approval of the Comisión Nacional de Inversiones Extranjeras is required for investors of another Party or their investments to own, directly or indirectly, more than the 49 percent of the ownership interest in an enterprise established or to be established in the territory of Mexico operating foreign-flagged vessels providing international maritime transport services.

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Transportation

Sub-Sector: Water Transportation

Industry Classification: CMAP 973203 - Maritime and Inland (Lake and Rivers) Ports Administration

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1202) Local Presence (Article 1205)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: Ley de Navegación y Comercio Marítimos, Libro II, Capítulo II

Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación, Libro III, Capítulo XI

Description: Cross-Border Services

All port workers must be Mexican nationals.

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Transportation

Sub-Sector: Water Transportation

Industry Classification: CMAP 973201 - Loading and Unloading Services Related to Water Transportation (includes operation and maintenance of docks; loading and unloading of vessels at shore-side; marine cargo handling; operation and maintenance of piers; ship and boat cleaning; stevedoring; transfer of cargo between ships and trucks, trains, pipelines and wharves; waterfront terminal operations)

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: Ley de Navegación y Comercio Marítimos, Libro I, Título Unico, Capítulo I; Libro II, Título II

Ley para Promover la Inversión Mexicana y Regular la Inversión Extranjera, Capítulos I, II, III, V, VI

Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación, Libro I, Capítulos I, II, III; Libro III, Capítulo II

Reglamento de la Ley para Promover la Inversión Mexicana y Regular la Inversión Extranjera, Título I; Título II, Capítulo I; Título IV; Título V; Título VIII, Capítulos I, II, III, V; Título IX, Capítulo I

Reglamento del Servicio de Maniobras en las Zonas Federales de Puertos, Libro I, Título Unico, Capítulo I; Libro II, Título Unico, Capítulo II, Sección A; Libro IV, Título Unico

Reglamento para el Uso y Aprovechamiento del Mar Territorial, Vías Navegables, Playas, Zona Federal Marítimo Terrestre yTerrenos Ganados al Mar, Capítulo II, Sección II

As qualified by the Description element

Description: Investment

Prior approval of the Comisión Nacional de Inversiones Extranjeras is required for investors of another Party or their investments to own, directly or indirectly, more than 49 percent of the ownership interest in an enterprise, established or to be established in the territory of Mexico providing to third persons the following services: operation and maintenance of docks; loading and unloading of vessels at shore-side; marine cargo handling; operation and maintenance of piers; ship and boat cleaning; stevedoring; transfer of cargo between ships and trucks, trains, pipelines and wharves; and waterfront terminal operations.

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Transportation

Sub-Sector: Water Transportation

Industry Classification: CMAP 973201 - Loading and Unloading Services Related to Water Transportation (includes operation and maintenance of docks; loading and unloading of vessels at shore-side; marine cargo handling; operation and maintenance of piers; ship and boat cleaning; stevedoring; transfer of cargo between ships and trucks, trains, pipelines and wharves; waterfront terminal operations)

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1202) Local Presence (Article 1205)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículo 32

Ley de Navegación y Comercio Marítimos, Libro I, Título Unico, Capítulo I; Libro II, Título II

Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación, Libro I, Capítulos I, II, III; Libro III, Capítulo II

Ley de Nacionalidad y Naturalización, Capítulo IV

Reglamento del Servicio de Maniobras en las Zonas Federales de Puertos, Libro I, Título Unico, Capítulo I, Libro II, Título Unico, Capítulo II, Sección A; Libro IV, Título Unico

Reglamento para el Uso y Aprovechamiento del Mar Territorial, Vías Navegables, Playas, Zona Federal Marítimo Terrestre y Terrenos Ganados al Mar, Capítulo II, Sección II

Description: Cross-Border Services

A concession granted by the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes is required to construct and operate, or operate, maritime and inland port terminals, including docks, cranes and related facilities. Only Mexican nationals and Mexican enterprises may obtain such a concession.

A permit issued by the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes is required to provide stevedoring and warehousing services. Only Mexican nationals and Mexican enterprises may obtain such a permit.

Phase-Out: None

Annex I. Schedule of the United States

Sector: Energy

Sub-Sector: Atomic Energy

Industry Classification:

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2011 et seq.

Description: Investment

A license is required for any person in the United States to transfer, manufacture, produce, use or import any facilities that produce or use nuclear materials. Such a license may not be issued to any entity known or believed to be owned, controlled or dominated by an alien, a foreign corporation or a foreign government (42 U.S.C. §§ 2133, 2134). The issuance of a license is also prohibited for "production or utilization facilities" for such uses as medical therapy or research and development activities to any corporation or other entity owned, controlled or dominated by one of the foreign persons described above (42 U.S.C. § 2134(d)).

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Business Services

Sub-Sector: Export Intermediaries

Industry Classification: SIC 7389 Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1202) Local Presence (Article 1205)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: Export Trading Company Act of 1982, 15 U.S.C. §§ 4011-4021

15 C.F.R. Part 325

Description: Cross-Border Services

Title III of the Export Trading Company Act of 1982 authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to issue "certificates of review" with respect to export conduct. The Act provides for the issuance of a certificate of review where the Secretary determines, and the Attorney General concurs, that the export conduct specified in an application will not have the anticompetitive effects proscribed by the Act. A certificate of review limits the liability under federal and state antitrust laws in engaging in the export conduct certified.

Only a "person" as defined by the Act can apply for a certificate of review. "Person" means "an individual who is a resident of the United States; a partnership that is created under and exists pursuant to the laws of any State or of the United States; a State or local government entity; a corporation, whether organized as a profit or non-profit corporation, that is created under and exists pursuant to the laws of any State or of the United States; or any association or combination, by contract or other arrangement, between such persons."

A foreign national or enterprise may receive the protection provided by a certificate of review by becoming a "member" of a qualified applicant. The regulations define "member" to mean "an entity (U.S. or foreign) that is seeking protection under the certificate with the applicant. A member may be a partner in a partnership or a joint venture; a shareholder of a corporation; or a participant in an association, cooperative, or other form of profit or non-profit organization or relationship, by contract or other arrangement."

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Business Services

Sub-Sector: Export Intermediaries

Industry Classification: SIC 7389 Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1202) Local Presence (Article 1205)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: Export Administration Act of 1979, Pub. L. 9672, as amended

Export Administration Regulations, 15 C.F.R. Parts 768 through 799

Description: Cross-Border Services

With some limited exceptions, the export from the United States of all commodities, and all technical data, requires either a general license or a validated license or other authorization granted by the Office of Export Licensing, U.S. Department of Commerce. A general license requires no application or documentation and is generally available for use by all persons.

An application for a validated license may be made only by a person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States who is in fact the exporter, or by his duly authorized agent. An application may be made on behalf of a person not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States by an authorized agent in the United States, who then becomes the applicant.

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Communications

Sub-Sector: Telecommunications (Enhanced or Value-Added Services)

Industry Classification: CPC 7523

CPC 75299 Data and Message Transmission Services

Other Telecommunications Services Not Elsewhere Classified (limited to enhanced or valueadded services)

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: F.C.C. Decision, International Communications Policies Governing Designation of Recognized Private Operating Agencies, 104 F.C.C. 2d 208, n. 123, n. 126 (1986) 47 C.F.R. 64.702 (definition of enhanced or valueadded services)

Description: Investment

If a U.S.-based foreign-owned enhanced service provider obtains voluntary Recognized Private Operating Agency certification from the U.S. Department of State for purposes of negotiating operating agreements with governments other than the U.S. Government, it must submit copies of all operating agreements granted to it by foreign governments and evidence of any refusal of a foreign government to grant it an operating agreement. For purposes of this rule, a service provider is generally considered to be "foreign owned" if 20 percent or more of its stock is owned by persons who are not U.S. citizens.

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Manufacturing

Sub-Sector: Agricultural Chemicals

Industry Classification: SIC 2879 Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102)

Measures: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 136 et seq.

Description: Investment

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not knowingly disclose information submitted by an applicant or registrant under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, without consent, to any foreign or multinational business or entity, or any employee or agent of such business or entity, engaged in the production, sale or distribution of pesticides in countries other than the United States or to any person who intends to deliver such data to that business, entity, employee or agent (7 U.S.C. § 136h(g)).

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Mining

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102) Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1103)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, 30 U.S.C. Chapter 3A

43 C.F.R. § 3102

43 C.F.R. § 2882.2-1

10 U.S.C. § 7435

Description: Investment

Under the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, aliens and foreign corporations may not acquire rights-of-way for oil or gas pipelines, or pipelines carrying products refined from oil and gas, across on-shore federal lands or acquire leases or interests in certain minerals on onshore federal lands, such as coal or oil. Non-U.S. citizens may own a 100 percent interest in a domestic corporation that acquires a right-of-way for oil or gas pipelines across on-shore federal lands, or that acquires a lease to develop mineral resources on on-shore federal lands, unless the foreign investor's home country denies similar or like privileges for the mineral or access in question to U.S. citizens or corporations, as compared with the privileges it accords to its own citizens or corporations or to the citizens or corporations of other countries (30 U.S.C. §§ 181, 185(a)).

Nationalization is not considered to be denial of similar or like privileges.

Foreign citizens, or corporations controlled by them, are restricted from obtaining access to federal leases on Naval Petroleum Reserves if the laws, customs or regulations of their country deny the privilege of leasing public lands to citizens or corporations of the United States (10 U.S.C. § 7435).

Phase-Out: None

Sector: Professional Services

Sub-Sector: Patent Attorneys and Patent Agents and other Practice before the Patent and Trademark Office

Industry Classification: SIC 7389

SIC 8111 Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified

Legal Services

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1202) Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1203) Local Presence (Article 1205)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: 35 U.S.C. Chapter 3 (practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)

37 C.F.R. Part 10 (representation of others before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)

Description: Cross-Border Services

As a condition to be registered to practice for others before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO):

(a) a patent attorney must be a U.S. citizen or an alien lawfully residing in the United States (37 C.F.R. § 10.6(a));

(b) a patent agent must be a U.S. citizen, an alien lawfully residing in the United States or a non-resident who is registered to practice in a country that permits patent agents registered to practice before the USPTO to practice in that country (37 C.F.R. § 10.6(c)); and

(c) a practitioner in trademark and non-patent cases must be an attorney licensed in the United States, a "grandfathered" agent, an attorney licensed to practice in a country that accords equivalent treatment to attorneys licensed in the United States, or an agent registered to practice in such a country (37 C.F.R. § 10.14(a)-(c)).

Phase-Out: Citizenship and permanent residency requirements are subject to removal within two years of the date of entry into force of this Agreement in accordance with Article 1210(3).

Sector: Public Administration

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102) Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1103)

Level of Government: Federal

Measures: 22 U.S.C. §§ 2194(a) and (b) and 2198(c)

Description: Investment