Part Four: Government Procurement

Chapter Ten
Government Procurement

Annex 1001.1a-1
Federal Government Entities

Schedule of Canada

Schedule of Mexico

1. Secretaría de Gobernación (Ministry of Government)

• Centro Nacional de Estudios Municipales (National Center for Municipal Studies)
• Comisión Calificadora de Publicaciones y Revistas Ilustradas (Illustrated Periodicals and Publications Classification Commission)
• Consejo Nacional de Población (National Population Council)
• Archivo General de la Nación (General Archives of the Nation)
• Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana (National Institute of Historical Studies on the Mexican Revolution)
• Patronato de Asistencia para la Reincorporación Social (Social Reintegration Assistance Foundation)
• Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres (National Disaster Prevention Center)
• Consejo Nacional de Radio y Televisión (National Radio and Television Council)
• Comisión Mexicana de Ayuda a Refugiados (Mexican Commission on Refugee Assistance)

2. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Relations)

• Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas MéxicoEEUU (Mexican
• Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, Mexico and the United States)
• Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas MéxicoGuatemala (Mexican
• Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, Mexico and Guatemala)

Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (Ministry of Finance and Public Credit)

• Comisión Nacional Bancaria (National Banking Commission)
• Comisión Nacional de Valores (National Securities Commission)
• Comisión Nacional de Seguros y Fianzas (National Insurance and Bonds Commission)
• Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Informatics)

4. Secretaría de Agricultura y Recursos Hidráulicos (Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources)

• Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua (Mexican Institute of Water Technology)
• Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias (National Forestry and Agricultural Research Institute)
• Apoyos a Servicios a la Comercialización Agropecuaria (Aserca) (Support Services for Agricultural Marketing)

5. Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (including the Instituto Mexicano de Comunicaciones and the Instituto Mexicano de Transporte) (Ministry of Communications and Transport, including the Mexican Institute of Communications and the Mexican Institute of Transportation)

6. Secretaría de Comercio y Fomento Industrial (Ministry of Commerce and Industrial Development)

7. Secretaría de Educación Pública (Ministry of Public Education)

• Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History)
• Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature)
• Radio Educación (Radio Education)
• Centro de Ingeniería y Desarrollo Industrial (Engineering and Industrial Development Center)
• Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (National Council for Culture and the Arts)
• Comisión Nacional del Deporte (National Sports Commission)

8. Secretaría de Salud (Ministry of Health)

• Administración del Patrimonio de la Beneficencia Pública (Public Charity Fund Administration)
• Centro Nacional de la Transfusión Sanguínea (National Blood Transfusion Center)
• Gerencia General de Biológicos y Reactivos (Office of General Management for Biologicals and Reagents)
• Centro para el Desarrollo de la Infraestructura en Salud (Center for Infrastructural Development in Health)
• Instituto de la Comunicación Humana Dr. Andrés Bustamante Gurría (Dr. Andrés Bustamante Gurría Institute of Human Communication)
• Instituto Nacional de Medicina de la Rehabilitación (National Rehabilitative Medicine Institute)
• Instituto Nacional de Ortopedia (National Orthopedics Institute)
• Consejo Nacional para la Prevención y Control del Síndrome de la Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida, (Conasida) (National Council for the Prevention and Control of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

9. Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social (Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare)

• Procuraduría Federal de la Defensa del Trabajo (Office of the Federal Attorney for Labor Defense)

10. Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria (Ministry of Agrarian Reform) -Instituto de Capacitación Agraria (Institute of Agricultural Training)

11. Secretaría de Pesca (Ministry of Fisheries) -Instituto Nacional de la Pesca (National Institute of Fisheries)

12. Procuraduría General de la República (Office of the Attorney General of the Republic)

13. Secretaría de Energía Minas e Industria Paraestatal (Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Parastatal Industry)

• Comisión Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias (National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards)
• Comisión Nacional para el Ahorro de Energía (National Commission for Energy Conservation)

14. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (Ministry of Social Development)

15. Secretaría de Turismo (Ministry of Tourism)

16. Secretaría de la Contraloría General de La Federación (Ministry of the Comptroller General of the Federation)

17. Comisión Nacional de Zonas Aridas (National Commission on Arid Zones)

18. Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuito (National Commission on Free Textbooks)

19. Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (National Commission on Human Rights)

20. Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo (National Educational Development Council)

21. Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (Ministry of National Defense)

22. Secretaría de Marina (Ministry of the Navy)

Notes:

1. This Schedule covers the numbered entities and those listed thereunder.

2. Translation provided for purposes of reference only.

Schedule of the United States

Annex 1001.1a-2
Government Enterprises

Schedule of Canada

Notes:

1. For greater certainty, Article 1019(5) applies to procurements by Canadian National Railway Company, St. Lawrence Seaway Authority and Via Rail Canada Inc., respecting the protection of the commercial confidentiality of information provided.

2. This Chapter does not apply to procurement by or on behalf of the Royal Canadian Mint of direct inputs for use in minting anything other than Canadian legal tender.

3. With respect to the Canadian National Railway Company, this Chapter applies to the procurement of goods, services and construction services for its railway operations, subject to any other exceptions in this Chapter.

Schedule of Mexico

Note: Translation provided for purposes of reference only.

Schedule of the United States

Note: For goods of Canada, suppliers of such goods and service suppliers of Canada, this Chapter will apply to procurements by the authorities and power administrations listed as items 1 through 6 only at such time as this Chapter applies to the procurements by the Canadian provincial, not including local, hydro utilities.

Annex 1001.1a-3
State and Provincial Government Entities

Coverage under this Annex will be the subject of consultations with state and provincial governments in accordance with Article 1024.

Annex 1001.1b-1
Goods

Section A - General Provisions

1. This Chapter applies to all goods, except to the extent set out in paragraphs 2 through 5 and Section B.

2. With respect to Canada, the goods listed in Section B purchased by the Department of National Defence and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are included in the coverage of this Chapter, subject to Article 1018(1).

3. With respect to Mexico, the goods listed in Section B purchased by the Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional and the Secretaría de Marina are included in the coverage of this Chapter, subject to the application of Article 1018(1).

4. With respect to the United States, this Chapter will generally apply to Department of Defense purchases of the FSC categories listed in Section B subject to United States Government determinations under Article 1018(1).

5. This Chapter does not apply to the following purchases of the U.S. Department of Defense:

(a) Federal Supply Classification (FSC) 83 - all elements other than pins, needles, sewing kits, flagstaffs, flagpoles and flagstaff trucks;

(b) FSC 84 - all elements other than sub-class 8460 (luggage) ;

(c) FSC 89 - all elements other than sub-class 8975 (tobacco products) ;

(d) FSC 2310 - (buses only) ;

(e) specialty metals, defined as steels melted in steel manufacturing facilities located in the United States or its possessions, where the maximum alloy content exceeds one or more of the following limits, must be used in products purchased by DOD: (1) manganese, 1.65 percent; silicon, 0.60 percent; or copper, 0.06 percent; or which contains more than 0.25 percent of any of the following elements: aluminum, chromium, cobalt, columbium, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten or vanadium; (2) metal alloys consisting of nickel, iron-nickel and cobalt base alloys containing a total of other alloying metals (except iron) in excess of 10 percent; (3) titanium and titanium alloys; or (4) zirconium base alloys;

(f) FSC 19 and 20 - that part defined as naval vessels or major components of the hull or superstructure thereof;

(g) FSC 51; and

(h) the following FSC categories are not generally covered due to application of Article 1018(1): 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 28, 31, 58, 59 and 95.

Section B - List of Certain Goods

Note: Numbers refer to the Federal Supply Classification codes.

Annex 1001.1b-2
Services

Section A - General Provisions

1. This Chapter applies to all services that are procured by the entities listed in Annex 1001.1a-1 and Annex 1001.1a-2, subject to:

(a) paragraph 3 and Section B; and

(b) Appendix 1001.1b-2-A, for the Parties specified in that Appendix.

2. Appendix 1001.1b-2-B sets out the Common Classification System for the services procured by the entities of the Parties. The Parties shall use this System for reporting purposes and shall update Appendix 1001.1b-2-B at such times as they mutually agree.

3.Annex 1001.1b-3 applies to contracts for construction services.

Section B - Excluded Coverage
Schedule of Canada
Services Exclusions
by Major Service Category

The following service contracts are excluded:

Notes:

1. All services, with reference to those goods purchased by the Department of National Defence, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Coast Guard which are not identified as subject to coverage by this chapter (Annex 1001.1b-1), will be exempt from the disciplines of the Chapter.

2. All services purchased in support of military forces located overseas will be exempt from coverage by this chapter.

3. The Schedules of Canada as identified in Annex 1001.2b and Annex 1001.1b-3 will apply.

4. In the absence of agreed definitions for service classes under the proposed NAFTA classification system, and until such time as they are mutually agreed, Canada will continue to apply appropriate CPC definitions to identify classes which it considers exempt.

Schedule of Mexico

The following service contracts are excluded:

(Based on the United Nations Central Product Classification (CPC) )

1.All transportation services, including:

2. Public Utilities Services (including telecommunications, transmission, water or energy services)

3. Management and operation contracts awarded to federallyfunded research and development centers or related to carrying out government sponsored research programs

4. Financial Services

5. Research and Development Services

Schedule of the United States
Service Exclusions
by Major Service Category

Notes:

1. All services purchased in support of military forces overseas will be excluded from coverage by this Chapter.

2. For service suppliers of Canada, this Chapter will apply to procurements by the authorities and the power administrations listed as items 1 through 6 in the U.S. Schedule in Annex 1001.1a-2 and to procurements by the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of Interior only at such time as this Chapter applies to the procurements by the Canadian provincial, not including local, hydro utilities.

Appendix 1001.1b-2-A
Temporary Schedule of Services for Mexico

1. Until Mexico has completed its Schedule to Section B of Annex 1001.1b-2, pursuant to paragraph 2, this Chapter applies only in respect of the services set out in the Temporary Schedule.

2. Mexico shall develop and, after consultations with the other Parties, complete its list of services set out in its Schedule to Section B of Annex 1001.1b-2 no later than July 1, 1995.

3. When Mexico completes its list pursuant to paragraph 2, each Party may, after consultation with the other Parties, review and revise its Schedule to Section B to Annex 1001.1b-2.

Temporary Schedule

Note: Based on the United Nations Central Product Classification (CPC)

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