Sector:

All Sectors

Sub-Sector:

Industry Classification:

Type of Reservation:

National Treatment (Articles 1102 (TLCAN: Art. 1102), 1202 (TLCAN: Art. 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 (TLCAN: Art. 1102), 1202 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103 (TLCAN: Art. 1103), 1203 (TLCAN: Art. 1203))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 1205))

Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107 (TLCAN: Art. 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 (TLCAN: Art. 1102), 1202 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103 (TLCAN: Art. 1103), 1203 (TLCAN: Art. 1203))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 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

CMAP 720004

CMAP 720006

CMAP 502003

Telephone Services

Telephone Booth Services

Other Telecommunications Services (not

including enhanced or value-added services)

Telecommunications Installations

Type of Reservation:

National Treatment (Articles 1102 (TLCAN: Art. 1102), 1202 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103 (TLCAN: Art. 1103), 1203 (TLCAN: Art. 1203))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 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

CMAP 720005

CMAP 720006

CMAP 711101

Postal Services

Telegraph Services, Radiotelegraph Services, Wireless Telegraphy

Other Telecommunications Services (limited to satellite communications)

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 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1203 (TLCAN: Art. 1203))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 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 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1203 (TLCAN: Art. 1203))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 1205))

Description:

Cross-Border Services Subject to Annex 602.3 (TLCAN: Anexo 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 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 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 (TLCAN: Art. 1102), 1202 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103 (TLCAN: Art. 1103), 1203 (TLCAN: Art. 1203))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 1205))

Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107 (TLCAN: Art. 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 (TLCAN: Art. 1102), 1202 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 1205))

Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107 (TLCAN: Art. 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 (TLCAN: Art. 1202))

Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1203 (TLCAN: Art. 1203))

Local Presence (Article 1205 (TLCAN: Art. 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