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Existing Measures: United States Wreckers Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. U-3

Various agreements and arrangements, including:

(a) Memorandum of Arrangements on Great Lakes Pilotage;

(b) Canada-United States Joint Marine Pollution Contingency Plan;

(c) Agreement with the United States on Loran "C" Service on the East and West Coasts; and

(d) Denmark-Canada Joint Marine Pollution Circumpolar Agreement.

Annex II. Schedule of Mexico

Sector: All Sectors

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202)

Description: Cross-Border and Investment

Mexico reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure restricting the acquisition, sale or other disposition of bonds, treasury bills or any other kind of debt security issued by the federal, state or local governments, except with respect to ownership by "a financial institution of another Party", as defined in Chapter Fourteen (Financial Services).

Existing Measures:

Sector: Communications

Sub-Sector: Entertainment Services (Broadcasting and Multipoint Distribution Systems (MDS))

Industry Classification: CMAP 941104 Private Production and Transmission of Radio Programs (limited to transmission of radio programs, MDS and uninterrupted music)

CMAP 941105 Private Services of Production, Transmission and Retransmission of Television Programming (limited to transmission and retransmission of television programs, MDS, and high-definition television)

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

Mexico reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in, or provision of, broadcasting, multipoint distribution systems, uninterrupted music and high-definition television services. This reservation does not apply to measures relating to the production, sale or licensing of radio or television programming.

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

Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación

Ley Federal de Radio y Televisión

Ley para Promover la Inversión Mexicana y Regular la Inversión Extranjera

Sector: Communications

Sub-Sector: Telecommunications

Industry Classification: CMAP 720006 Other Telecommunications Services (limited to aeronautical mobile and fixed services)

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202) Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103, 1203) Local Presence (Article 1205)

Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment

Mexico reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in, or provision of, air traffic control, aeronautical meteorology, aeronautical telecommunications, and other telecommunications services relating to air navigation services.

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

Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación

Ley para Promover la Inversión Mexicana y Regular la Inversión Extranjera

Decreto que Crea el Organismo Desconcentrado "Servicios a la Navegación en el Espacio Aéreo Mexicano" (SENEAM), 3 de octubre de 1978

Sector: Communications

Sub-Sector: Telecommunications Transport Networks

Industry Classification: CMAP 720003 Telephone Services

CMAP 720004 Telephone Booth Services

CMAP 720006 Other Telecommunications Services (not including enhanced or value-added services)

CMAP 502003 Telecommunications Installations

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202) Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103, 1203) Local Presence (Article 1205)

Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment

Mexico reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in, or provision of, telecommunications transport networks and telecommunications transport services. Telecommunications transport networks include the facilities to provide telecommunications transport services such as local basic telephone services, long-distance telephone services (national and international), rural telephone services, cellular telephone services, telephone booth services, satellite services, trunking, paging, mobile telephony, maritime telecommunications services, air telephone, telex, and data transmission services.

Telecommunications transport services typically involve the real-time transmission of customer-supplied information between two or more points without any end-to-end change in the form or content of the customer's information, whether or not such services are offered to the public generally.

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

Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación

Ley para Promover la Inversión Mexicana y Regular la Inversión Extranjera

Reglamento de Telecomunicaciones

Sector: Communications and Transportation

Sub-Sector: Postal Services, Telecommunications and Railroads

Industry Classification: CMAP 720001 Postal Services

CMAP 720005 Telegraph Services, Radiotelegraph Services, Wireless Telegraphy

CMAP 720006 Other Telecommunications Services (limited to satellite communications)

CMAP 711101 Railway Transportation Services (limited to operation, administration and control of traffic within the Mexican railway system, supervision and management of railway rights-of-way, construction, operation, and maintenance of basic railway infrastructure)

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

Description: Cross-Border Services

Mexico reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure related to the provision of postal services (operation, administration and organization of first class mail), telegraph services, radiotelegraphy services, satellite communications services (establishment, ownership and operation of satellite systems, and establishment, ownership and operation of earth stations with international links), and railroad services (operation, administration and control of traffic within the Mexican railway system, supervision and management of railway rights-of-way, construction, operation, and maintenance of basic railway infrastructure).

Existing Measures: Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículo 28

Ley de Vías Generales de Comunicación

Ley Orgánica de Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México

Ley del Servicio Postal Mexicano

Sector: Energy

Sub-Sector: Petroleum and Other Hydrocarbons

Basic Petrochemicals

Electricity

Nuclear Power

Treatment of Radioactive Minerals

Industry Classification:

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

Description: Cross-Border Services Subject to Annex 602.3, Mexico reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure related to services associated with energy and basic petrochemical goods.

Existing Measures: Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 27, 28

Ley Reglamentaria del Artículo 27 Constitucional en Materia Nuclear

Ley Reglamentaria del Artículo 27 Constitucional en el Ramo del Petróleo y sus reglamentos

Ley Orgánica de Petróleos Mexicanos y Organismos Subsidiarios

Sector: Minority Affairs

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

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

Description: Cross-Border Services

Mexico reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure according rights or preferences to socially or economically disadvantaged groups.

Existing Measures: Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículo 4

Sector: Professional, Technical and Specialized Services

Sub-Sector: Professional Services

Industry Classification: CMAP 951002 Legal Services (including foreign legal consultancy)

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 Mexico, Annex VI, page VI-M-2, Mexico reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the provision of legal services and foreign legal consultancy services by persons of the United States.

Existing Measures: Ley Reglamentaria del Artículo 5o Constitucional, relativo al ejercicio de las profesiones en el Distrito Federal

Ley para Promover la Inversión Mexicana y Regular la Inversión Extranjera

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

Mexico 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: Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículos 4, 17, 18, 25, 26, 28, 123

Sector: Transportation

Sub-Sector: Specialized Personnel

Industry Classification: CMAP 951023 Other Specialized Services (limited to ship captains (capitanes); aircraft pilots (pilotos); ship masters (patrones); ship machinists (maquinistas); ship mechanics (mecánicos); airport administrators (comandantes de aeródromos); harbor masters (capitanes de puerto); harbor pilots (pilotos de puerto); customs brokers (agentes aduanales); crew on Mexican flagged vessels or aircraft (personal que tripule cualquier embarcación o aeronave con bandera o insignia mercante mexicana))

Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1202)

Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1203) Local Presence (Article 1205)

Description: Cross-Border Services

Only Mexican nationals by birth may serve as:

(a) captains, pilots, ship masters, machinists, mechanics and crew members manning vessels or aircraft under the Mexican flag;

(b) harbor pilots, harbor masters and airport administrators; and

(c) customs brokers.

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

Annex II. Schedule of United States

Sector: All Sectors

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

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

Description: Investment

The United States reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to residency requirements for the ownership by investors of Canada, or their investments, of oceanfront land.

Existing Measures:

 Sector: Communications

Sub-Sector: Cable Television

Industry Classification: CPC 753 Radio and Television Cable Services

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 operation of a cable television system in that country.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Communications

Sub-Sector: Telecommunications Transport Networks and Services and Radiocommunications

Industry Classification: CPC 752 Telecommunications Services (not including enhanced or valueadded services)

CPC 7543 Connection Services

CPC 7549 Other Telecommunications Services Not Elsewhere Classified (limited to telecommunications transport networks and 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

The United States reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in, or the provision of, telecommunications transport networks, telecommunications transport services or radiocommunications. These measures may apply to such matters as market entry, spectrum assignment, tariffs, intercarrier agreements, terms and conditions of service, and interconnection between networks and services. Telecommunications transport services typically involve the realtime transmission of customersupplied information between two or more points without endtoend change in the form or content of the customer's information, whether or not such services are offered to the public generally.

These services include voice and data services provided by any electromagnetic means. Radiocommunications include all communications by radio, including broadcasting. This reservation does not apply to measures relating to enhanced or valueadded services or to the production, sale or licensing of radio or television programming.

Existing Measures: Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. §§ 151 et seq., see particularly §§ 310(a), (b) (radio licenses for common carrier, aeronautical en route, aeronautical fixed, and broadcasting services)

F.C.C. Decision, International Competitive Carrier, 102 F.C.C. 2d 812 (1985), as modified in Regulation of International Common Carrier Services, CC Docket No. 91-360, FCC 92-463 (released November 6, 1992)

Submarine Cable Landing Act, 47 U.S.C. § 34-9, see particularly § 35 (undersea cables)

Communications Satellite Act of 1962, 47 U.S.C. §§ 701-57

Telegraph Act, 47 U.S.C. § 17 (telegraph cables serving Alaska)

Children's Television Act of 1990, 47 U.S.C. § 303a

Television Program Improvement Act of 1990, 47 U.S.C. § 303c

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