RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/SPEC/TON/2 
19 April 2001 
 (01-1981) 
Working Party on the 
Accession of Tonga Original:   English 
 
 
  
ACCESSION OF TONGA  
 
Initial Offer on Trade in Services
 
 
  For the purposes of the accession of the Governme nt of the Kingdom of Tonga to the WTO, 
the Government has submitted its offer of  initial commitments on trade in services. 
 
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Initial Services Offer
 
 
Fact finding  
 
 Tonga is a small, isolated, vulnerable devel oping country in which most services sectors are 
at present unregulated.   Much of the information requested in WT/ACC/ W/5 is not available. Such information as is 
currently available relating to trade in services  in Tonga is contained in the Memorandum  
(WT/ACC/TON/3) and in the Questions and An swers document (WT/ACC/TON/4).  However, 
Tonga will be circulating another document consolidating this info rmation and supplementing it to the 
extent possible.  Initial Offer
 
 
 Tonga wishes initially to offer horizontal commitments  relating to: conditions for obtaining 
business licenses; temporary entry and stay of nati onals of other WTO Members; and real estate 
purchase.  
 It also wishes to offer specific commitments
 in the following sectors: 
  1. BUSINESS SERVICES
 
 
A. Professional Services  
 a.     Legal services CPC 861  b.    Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services CPC 862  e.     Engineering services CPC 8672  h.     Medical and dental Services CPC 9312  i.      Veterinary services CPC 932 WT/ACC/SPEC/TON/2 
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 B. Computer and Related Services
 
 a. Consultancy services related to the installation     computer hardware  CPC 841  b.    Software implementation Services CPC 842  
F.   Other Business Services
 
 c.    Management consulting services CPC 871  d.    Services related to man. consulting CPC 866  e.    Technical testing and analysis serv. CPC 8676  r.    Printing, publishing CPC 88442 
 
2. COMMUNICATION SERVICES
 
 B.  Courier Services
 CPC 7512 
 
C.  Telecommunication Services     
 (a) Voice telephone services  (CPC 7521)  (b) Packet-switched data transmission services (CPC 7523**)
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 (c) Circuit-switched data transmission services (CPC 7523)  (d) Telex services  (CPC 7523**)  (e) Telegraph services  (CPC 7522) 
 (f) Facsimile services  (CPC 7521**, 7529**) 
 (g) Private leased circuit services: (CPC 7522**, 7523**)   Mobile services;   Analogue/digital cellular services;   PCS (personal communications services); 
  Paging services; 
  Mobile data services.  (h) Electronic mail  (CPC 7523**)  (i) Voice mail  (CPC 7523**)  (j) On-line information and data base retrieval  (CPC 7523**)   Electronic data interchange (EDI)  (CPC 7523**) 
  Enhanced/value-added facsimile services,  
  incl. store and forward, store and retrieve  (CPC 7523**)  (m) Code and prot ocol conversion  
 (n) On-line information and/or data  (CPC 843**)  (o) Other 
 
5.  EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
 
 A.  Primary Education Services
 CPC 921 
 B.  Secondary Education Services
 CPC 922 
 
C.  Higher Education Services  CPC 923 
 D.  Adult Education Services
 CPC 924 
 
                                                      
1 ** The (**) indicates that the service specified constitutes only a part of the total range of activities 
covered by the CPC concordance (e.g. voice mail is only component of CPC item 7523).  WT/ACC/SPEC/TON/2 
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 6.  ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES  
 A.  Sewage Services
 CPC 9401 
 B.  Refuse Disposal Services
 CPC 9402 
 
8. HEALTH RELATED AND SOCIAL SERVICES  
 A.  Hospital Services
 CPC 9311 
 
B.  Other Human Health Services  CPC 9319 
 9. TOURISM AND TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES
 
 A.  Hotels and Restaurants (incl. catering)
 CPC 641-643 
 
B.  Travel Agencies and Tour Operators Services  CPC 7471 
      Tonga needs to translate this intention into  a specific offer that will promote its economic 
development. It needs to draw up the laws and regulations necessary to implement these 
commitments. It needs to ensure that the re levant services and service providers are properly 
regulated, e.g. by setting approval procedures or licensing and qualification procedures and 
requirements, such as financial soundness or me mbership in professional organizations, and 
prudential measures. 
 
 Tonga wishes to undertake these tasks without de lay but, to do so, needs to request technical 
assistance from relevant international organizations a nd interested WTO Members. It will also need to 
request technical assistance to enable it to implem ent its commitments and its regulatory measures. It 
therefore wishes to enter into discussion with inte rested parties on ways in which such assistance 
might be obtained. 
 
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