North American Free Trade Agreement


ANNEX II - Schedule of Mexico

Annex I : Reservations for Existing Measures and Liberalization Commitments
Annex II : Reservations for Future Measures
Schedule of Canada
Schedule of Mexico
All Sectors
Communications
Entertainment Services [Broadcasting and Multipoint Distribution Systems (MDS)]
Telecommunications
Telecommunications Transport Networks
Communications and Transportation
Energy
Minority Affairs
Professional, Technical and Specialized Services
Social Services
Transportation
Schedule of the United States
Annex III : Activities Reserved to the State
Annex IV : Exceptions from Most-Favored-Nation Treatment
Annex V : Quantatative Restrictions
Annex VI : Miscellaneous Commitments
Annex VII : Reservations, Specific Commitments and Other Items

Sector : All Sectors
Sub-Sector :
Industrial 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 highdefinition 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 highdefinition 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 valueadded 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, longdistance 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 realtime transmission of customersupplied information between two or more points without any endtoend 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 rightsofway, construction, operation, and maintenance of basic railway infrastructure)
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 rightsofway, 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
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 :
Industrial 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 :
Industrial 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 :
  1. captains, pilots, ship masters, machinists, mechanics and crew members manning vessels or aircraft under the Mexican flag ;
  2. harbor pilots, harbor masters and airport administrators ; and
  3. customs brokers.
Existing Measures : Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Artículo 32

last updated on october 5, 03 by TMTM
Debian GNU-Linux 2.4.18