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
- 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
- Computer and Related Services
- Consultancy services related to the installation of computer hardware
- Software implementation services, including systems and software consulting
services, systems analysis, design, programming and maintenance services,
excluding those listed under Financial Services
- Data processing services, including processing, tabulation and facilities
management services, but excluding those listed under Communication Services (2C below) and
Financial Services (7B)
- Data base services, excluding those listed under Financial Services
- Maintenance and repair services of office machinery and equipment
including computers
- Other computer services
- Research and Development Services
- Research and experimental development services on social sciences
and humanities, including law and economics (excluding linguistics and
language)
- Real Estate Services
- Real estate services involving own or leased property
- Real estate services on a fee or contract basis
- 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)
- 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
- General Construction Work for Buildings
- Construction work for buildings, including for multi-dwelling buildings,
warehouses and commercial buildings
- 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
- Installation and Assembly Work
- Assembly and erection of prefabricated constructions
- Installation work
- Building Completion and Finishing Work
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Franchising
- Franchising related to non-financial intangible assets
- Other
- Retail sales of motor fuel
6. Environmental Services
- Sewage Services
- Refuse Disposal Services
- Sanitation and Similar Services
- Other
- Cleaning services of exhaust gases
- Noise abatement services
- Nature and landscape protection services
- Other environmental services n.e.c.
7. Financial Services
- 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)
- 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
- Hotels and Restaurants (including catering)
- Hotel and other lodging services
- Food and beverage serving services
- 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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