U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement: Potential Economy-wide ... - USITC

Table 6.2 U.S.-Korea FTA: Industry sectors subject to potential nonconforming measures related to investment
(Annex II)
Korea: Potential measures United States: Potential measures
< Firearms, swords, and explosives
< State-owned national electronic/information system
Disadvantaged groups
< Social services: Human health services
< Communications services
< Broadcasting services
< Telecommunications services
< Audiovisual services
< Digital audio or video services
< Transportation services
< Railroad transportation
< Passenger road transport services
< Freight road transport services
< Internal waterway transport services
< Space transport services
< Maritime passenger transportation services
< Maritime cabotage services
< Environmental services
< Water treatment and supply
< Sewage
< Municipal waste
< Sanitation
< Nature and landscape protection services (except environmental impact
assessment services)
< Atomic energy
< Energy services
< Electric power generation other than nuclear power
< Electric power transmission, distribution, and sales
< Electricity business
< Gas industry
< Distribution services
< Commission agents
< Wholesaling and retailing of agricultural raw materials and live animals
< Storage and warehousing
< Nonmonopoly postal services
< Business services
< Real estate services, excluding real estate brokerage and appraisal
services
< Insolvency and receivership services
< Examination, certification, and classification of agricultural raw
materials and live animals
< Cadastral surveying and map-related services
< Services incidental to agriculture, hunting, forestry, and fishing
< Fishing
< Publishing of newspapers
< Education services—preprimary, primary, secondary, higher, and other
education
< Recreational, cultural, and sporting services
< Motion picture services
< Museum and other cultural services
< Other recreational services
< Legal services—foreign legal consultants
< Professional services—accountants
Source: USTR, “Final - United States - Korea FTA Texts,” 2007, Annex II.
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< Minority affairs
< Satellite broadcasting
< Social services
< Transportation services:
Maritime transportation
Note: Nonconforming measures are found in Annexes I through III of the FTA. Annex II contains reservations for
cross-border services and investment, excluding financial services, to ensure that a party maintains flexibility to
impose measures in the future that may be inconsistent with the disciplines of the FTA. For information on the
nonconforming measures related to financial services, see app. I.