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GATS Service Sectors for Temporary Entry to Canada


Sectors Covered:

    1. Business Services

    2. Communication Services

    3. Construction Services

    4. Distribution Services

    6. Environmental Services

    7. Financial Services

    9. Tourism and Travel Related Services

    11. Transport Services

[Note: numbering is not sequential because Canada did not make commitments in sector numbers 5, 8 and 10.]


    1. Business Services

    1. Professional Services
      • Foreign legal consultants
      • Accounting, auditing and book-keeping services
      • Taxation services (excluding legal services)
      • Architectural services
      • Engineering services
      • Integrated engineering services
      • Urban planning and landscape architectural services

    2. Computer and Related Services
    3. Research and Development Services
      • Research and experimental development services on social sciences and humanities, including law and economics (excluding linguistics and language)

    4. Real Estate Services
      • Real estate services involving own or leased property
      • Real estate services on a fee or contract basis

    5. Rental/Leasing Services without Operators
      • Leasing or rental services concerning machinery and equipment without operator, including computers
      • Leasing or rental services concerning personal and household goods (excluding the rental of pre-recorded records, sound cassettes, CDs and rental services concerning video tapes)

    6. Other Business Services
      • Market research and public opinion polling services
      • Management consulting services
        • General management consulting services
        • Financial management consulting services
        • Marketing management consulting services
        • Human resources management consulting services
        • Production management consulting services
        • Public relations services
        • Other management consulting services, including agrology, agronomy, farm management and related consulting services
      • Services related to management consulting
      • Technical testing and analysis services including quality control and inspection
      • Rental of agricultural equipment with operator
      • Services incidental to forestry and logging, including forest management
      • Services incidental to mining, including drilling and field services and rental equipment with operator
        • Site preparation for mining
      • Toll refining services - oil and basic metals
      • Placement and supply services of personnel
      • Investigation and security services
      • Related scientific and technical consulting services
        • Geological, geophysical and other scientific prospecting services, including those related to mining
        • Subsurface surveying services
        • Surface surveying services
        • Map making services
      • Repair services of personal and household goods
        • Repair services incidental to metal products, machinery and equipment including computers and communications equipment on a fee for contract basis
      • Building-cleaning services
      • Packaging services
      • Other business services, including
        • Credit reporting services
        • Collection agency services
        • Telephone answering services
        • Duplicating services
        • Translation and interpretation services
        • Mailing list compilation and mailing services
        • Specialty design services
        • Patent services

    2. Communication Services

      B. Courier Services

      • Commercial courier services, including by public transport or self-owned transport

      C. Telecommunication Services

      • Enhanced or value-added services, for the supply of which the underlying telecommunications transport facilities are leased from providers of public telecommunications transport networks; these include:
      • Electronic mail
      • Voice mail
      • On-line information and database retrieval
      • Electronic data interchange (EDI)
      • Enhanced/value-added facsimile services, including store and forward, store and retrieve
      • Code and protocol conversion
      • On-line information and/or data processing (including transaction processing)

       

    3. Construction Services

    1. General Construction Work for Buildings
      • Construction work for buildings, including for multi-dwelling buildings, warehouses and commercial buildings

    2. General Construction Work for Civil Engineering
      • Construction work for civil engineering, including for highways, airports, harbours, dams, bridges, construction for mining and manufacturing, rail, power and communications facilities, pipelines and stadia and other recreational facilities

    3. Installation and Assembly Work
      • Assembly and erection of prefabricated constructions
      • Installation work

    4. Building Completion and Finishing Work
    5. Other
      • Pre-erection work at construction sites, including excavation, earthmoving and site work except site preparation for mining
      • Special trade construction work
      • Renting services related to equipment for construction of demolition of buildings or civil engineering works, with operator

    4. Distribution Services

    1. Commission Agents' Services
      • Commission agents services (excluding sales on a fee or contract basis of food products, beverages and tobacco and sales on a fee or contract basis of pharmaceutical and medical goods)

    2. Wholesale Trade Services
      • Wholesale trade services (excepting agriculture and live animals; fisheries products; alcoholic beverages; musical scores, audio and video recordings; and books, magazines, newspapers, journals, periodicals and other printed matter; and pharmaceutical and medical goods, and surgical and orthopaedic instruments and devices)

    3. Retailing Services
      • Food retailing services (excluding liquor, wine and beer sales)
      • Non-food retailing services (excluding music scores, audio and video records and tapes; books, magazines, newspapers and periodicals; and pharmaceutical, medical and orthopaedic goods and printed music)
      • Sale of motor vehicles including automobiles and other road vehicles
      • Sale of parts and accessories of motor vehicles
      • Sales of motorcycles and snowmobiles and of related parts and accessories

    4. Franchising
      • Franchising related to non-financial intangible assets

    5. Other
      • Retail sales of motor fuel


    6. Environmental Services

    1. Sewage Services
    2. Refuse Disposal Services
    3. Sanitation and Similar Services
    4. Other
      • Cleaning services of exhaust gases
      • Noise abatement services
      • Nature and landscape protection services
      • Other environmental services n.e.c.


    7. Financial Services

    1. Insurance and Insurance-Related Services
      • Life, accident and health insurance services
      • Non-life insurance services (except deposit insurance and similar compensation schemes
      • Reinsurance and retrocession
      • Services auxiliary to insurance (including broking and agency services)

    2. Banking and Other Financial Services (excluding insurance)
      • Acceptance of deposits and other repayable funds from the public
      • Lending of all types, including, inter alia, consumer credit, mortgage credit, factoring and financing of commercial transactions
      • Financial leasing
      • All payment and money transmission services
      • Guarantees and commitments
      • Trading for own account or for account of customers, whether on an exchange, in an over-the-counter market or otherwise, the following:
        • money market instruments (cheques, bills, certificates of deposit, etc.)
        • foreign exchange
        • derivative products including but not limited to, futures and options
        • exchange rate and interest rate instruments, including products such as swaps, forward rate agreements, etc.
        • transferable securities
        • other negotiable instruments and financial assets, including bullion
      • Participation in issues of all kinds of securities, including underwriting and placement as agent (whether publicly or privately) and provision of service related to such issues
      • Money broking
      • Asset management, such as cash or portfolio management, all forms of collective investment management, pension fund management, custodial depository and trust services
      • Settlement and clearing services for financial assets, including securities, derivative products, and other negotiable instruments
      • Advisory, intermediation, and other auxiliary financial services on activities including credit reference and analysis, investment and portfolio research and advice, advice on acquisitions and on corporate restructuring and strategy
      • Provision and transfer of financial information, and financial data processing and related software by providers of other financial services


    9. Tourism and Travel Related Services

    1. Hotels and Restaurants (including catering)
      • Hotel and other lodging services
      • Food and beverage serving services

    2. Travel Agencies and Tour Operators Services
      • Travel agency and tour operator services


    11. Transport Services

      A. Maritime Transport Services

      B. Air Transport Services

      • Maintenance and repair of aircraft and aircraft engines
      • Computer reservations systems

      E. Rail Transport Services

      • Railway passenger and freight transport
      • Maintenance and repair of rail transport equipment

      F. Road Transport Services

      • Passenger transportation
        • Interurban scheduled bus passenger transportation
        • Taxis
        • Rental services of cars with drivers
        • Nonscheduled motor buses, chartered buses and tour and sightseeing buses
      • Freight transportation
        • Highway freight transportation
      • Rental of commercial vehicle with operator
        • Rental services of commercial road vehicles with operators
        • Maintenance of road transport equipment
        • Maintenance and repair services of motor vehicles
        • Maintenance and repair services of motorcycles and snowmobiles
        • Repair services n.e.c. of motor vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers on a fee or contract basis

      H. Services Auxiliary to All Modes of Transport Other than Maritime Auxiliary Services

      • Container handling services
        • Other cargo handling services
      • Storage and warehouse services
      • Freight transport agency services
      • Other supporting and auxiliary transport services, including freight forwarding
        • Storage and warehousing services
        • Customs clearance services (as defined)
        • Container station and depot services (as defined)
        • Maritime agency services
        • Maritime freight forwarding services (as defined)



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