2-36.6 WTO GPA and FTA Service Exceptions

Purchases of the following services are excluded from coverage as indicated in the table below:

Figure 2.15

Excluded Purchases

 

 

Service

WTO GPA

NAFTA (Mexico and Canada) and Chile FTA

Singapore FTA

Australia and Morocco FTA

(1i)

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) telecommunications and transmission services, except advanced (i.e., value-added) telecommunications services.

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

(1ii)

ADP teleprocessing and timesharing services, telecommunications network management services, automated news services, data services or other information services, and other ADP and telecommunications services

Excluded

Excluded

 

 

(1iii)

Basic telecommunications network services (i.e., voice telephone services, packet-switched data transmission services, circuit-switched data transmission services, telex services, telegraph services, facsimile services, and private leased circuit services, but not information services as defined in 47 U.S.C. 153(20)).

Excluded (subset of services listed under (1i)

Excluded (subset of services listed under (1i)

Excluded

Excluded

(2)

Dredging

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

(3i)

Operation and management contracts of certain Government facilities and privately owned facilities for Government purposes, including Federally Funded Research and Development Centers.

Excluded

 

Excluded

 

(3ii)

Operation of Government-owned research and development facilities or Government-owned environmental laboratories.

Excluded (subset of services listed under (3i)

Excluded

Excluded (subset of services listed under (3i)

Excluded

(4)

Research and development.

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

(5)

Transportation services (including launching services, but not including travel agent services).

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

(6)

Utility services.

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

Excluded

(7)

Maintenance, repair, modification, rebuilding, and installation of equipment related to ships.

 

Excluded

 

 

(8)

Nonnuclear ship repair.

 

Excluded

 

Excluded