WT/REG284/2/Add.1  
 
31 October 2014  
(14-6323)  Page: 1/4  
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements  Original: English  
 
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS 
(ASEAN), AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 
(GOODS AND SERVICES) 
QUESTIONS AND REPLIES 
Addendum 
 The following communication, dated 28 October 2014, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegations of Australia, New Zealand and ASE AN (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, 
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam).  
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 This document reproduces the questions addressed to the Parties and the responses 
submitted.  
 
Questions from the delegation of Peru
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 1.1.  Paragraph 3.52: Will draft technical regu lations that are in line with international 
standards be notified? 
In Article 4 of Chapter 6 of AANZFTA (Standards, Technical Regulations and Conformity 
Assessment Procedures), each AANZFTA Party affirms its rights and obligations with respect to 
each other under the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. In Article 11 of Chapter 6, 
each Party also affirms its commitment to ensuring that information regarding proposed new or amended standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures is made 
available in accordance with the relevant requir ements of the TBT Agreement. AANZFTA does not 
provide for any specific notification requirements in addition to those set out in the TBT Agreement. However, AANZFTA provides for the esta blishment of contact points with responsibility 
for co-ordinating the implementation of Chapter 6, including facilitating the exchange of 
information between the Parties. 
 1.2.  Table 4.9 Myanmar: comparison between the GATS and the Agreement specific 
commitments in trade in services (excluding mode 4) 
Given that Myanmar has only three sector s on its GATS schedule of commitments, 
Peru would like to know why commitments are not undertaken in the "hotels and 
restaurants" sector (which is already committed under the GATS). 
Myanmar committed only 3 sectors/ sub-se ctors under the GATS namely, Hotels 
(CPC 641 - 643), travel agencies and tour oper ators services (CPC 7471), and Tourist transport 
operation: exclusively operating a tourist business by motor vehicle, water craft or both. Myanmar 
will consider to add these sectors/sub-sectors for AANZFTA Services Chapter when ASEAN and 
ANZ continue the review of services commitments near future. 
                                               
1 Questions were submitted to the Parties on 1st September 2014 (three weeks, one day before the 
meeting). WT/REG284/2/Add.1 
 
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  Comments to the Secretariat or to the Parties to the RTA 
 
Table 4.5 Cambodia: comparison between the GATS and the Agreement specific commitments in trade in services (excluding mode 4) 
1.3.  Comments/questions regarding the schedules: 
a. Given that the "rental/leasing services  without operators", "environmental 
services", "health related and social serv ices" and "tourist guides" sectors have 
been committed under the GATS and FTA, Peru would like to know why it says 
(using the ( ) sign) that commitments have not been made in these sectors. 
b. Given that the "postal", "internal waterw ays" and "rail" sectors have not been 
committed under the GATS and FTA, Peru would like to know why it says (using 
the (√) sign) that commitments have been made in these sectors. 
Cambodia thanks Peru for raising the questions. Cambodia was also found errors in that 
Factual Presentation on table 4.5 as raised by Peru which could be resulted from compiling an old 
version into the Factual Presentation. In this connection, Cambodia wishes to inform that 
Cambodia had corrected them and sent it to ASEAN Secretariat on 22 May 2014 for forwarding to 
the WTO Secretariat but the ASEAN secretariat ma y send an old version to the WTO secretariat 
and therefore Cambodia would now like to subm it the updated version for Peru perusal and 
information.  
Table 4.5 Cambodia: comparison between the GATS and the Agreement specific 
commitments in trade in services (excluding mode 4) 
Sectors GATS FTA 
1. BUSINESS SERVICES   
A. Professional services √ √ 
B. Computer and related services  √ √ 
C. Research and development - - 
D. Real estate - - 
E. Rental/Leasing serv ices without operators √ √ 
F. Other - - 
2. COMMUNICATION SERVICES   
A. Postal - - 
B. Courier √ √ 
C. Telecommunication  √ √ 
D. Audiovisual - - 
E. Other - - 
3. CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED ENGINEERING SERVICES √ √ 
4. DISTRIBUTION SERVICES √ √ 
5. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES √ √ 
6. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES √ √ 
7. FINANCIAL SERVICES   
A. All insurance and insu rance-related services √ √ 
B. Banking and other financial services √ √ 
8. HEALTH RELATED AND SOCIAL SERVICES √ √ 
9. TOURISM AND TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES   
A. Hotels an d restaurants √ √ 
B. Travel agencies and tour operators √ √ 
C. Tourist guides services √ √ 
D. Other - - 
10. RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SPORTING SERVICES √ √ 
11. TRANSPORT SERVICES   
A. Maritime √  √ 
B. Internal waterways - - 
C. Air  √ √ WT/REG284/2/Add.1 
 
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  Sectors GATS FTA 
D. Space - - 
E. Rail  - - 
F. Road √ √ 
G. Pipeline √ √ 
H. Services auxiliary to all modes of transport - - 
I. Other - - 
12. OTHER SERVICES NOT INCLUDED ELSEWHERE - - 
Commitments in the GATS schedule. 
-:   No commitments either under the GATS or the Agreement. New:   New commitments made under the Agreement. Not scheduled:  Commitment in the GATS schedule, but not under the Agreement. Source:  Cambodia's Schedule of Specific Commitments under the GATS (GATS/SC/140) and Annex under the 
Agreement. The comparison only concerns market access and national trea tment for modes 1-3, and 
not mode 4. 
1.4.  Table 4.7 Lao People's Democratic Re public: comparison between the GATS and the 
Agreement specific commitments in trad e in services (excluding mode 4) 
Comment/question regarding the schedules: 
Given that the "computer and related se rvices" sector has been committed under 
t h e  G A T S  a n d  F T A ,  P e r u  w o u l d  l i k e  t o  k n o w  w h y  i t  s a y s  ( n o t  u s i n g  a n y  s i g n )  t h a t  
commitments in this sector have  not been made under the FTA. 
We have also looked into this issue and it seems that there has been an error in the factual 
presentation. Namely, the "computer and related services" sector has been committed in Modes 
1-3 under the GATS and also under the AANZFTA. Therefore the mark "-" for commitments for 
these services under the FTA in the presentation seems to be wrong. 
The Table 4.7 does in fact underrepresent Lao PDR’s commitments in "computer and related 
services" made under AANZFTA, and these services should be ticked " √" in the Table both under 
GATS and FTA column. 
Please find below updated version for reference.  
Table 4.7 Lao PDR: comparison between the GATS and the Agreement specific 
commitments in trade in services (excluding mode 4) 
Sectors GATS FTA 
1. BUSINESS SERVICES   
A. Professional services √ √ 
B. Computer and related services  √  √  
C. Research and development √  
D. Real estate -  
E. Rental/Leasing serv ices without operators -  
F. Other √ Not Scheduled 
2. COMMUNICATION SERVICES   
A. Postal -  
B. Courier √  
C. Telecommunication  √ √ 
D. Audiovisual - - 
E. Other - - 
3. CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED 
ENGINEERING SERVICES √ √ 
4. DISTRIBUTION SERVICES √ Not Scheduled 
5. EDUCATION SERVICES √ √ 
6. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES √ √ 
7. FINANCIAL SERVICES   
A. All insurance and insu rance-related services √ Not Scheduled 
B. Banking and other financial services √ √ 
8. HEALTH RELATED AND SOCIAL SERVICES √ Not Scheduled WT/REG284/2/Add.1 
 
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  Sectors GATS FTA 
9. TOURISM AND TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES   
A. Hotels an d restaurants √ √ 
B. Travel agencies and tour operators √ √ 
C. Tourist guides - - 
D. Other √  
10. RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SPORTING 
SERVICES - - 
11. TRANSPORT SERVICES   
A. Maritime -  
B. Internal waterways - - 
C. Air  √ - 
D. Space - - 
E. Rail  - - 
F. Road - - 
G. Pipeline - - 
H. Services auxiliary to all modes of transport - - 
I. Other - - 
12. OTHER SERVICES NOT INCLUDED 
ELSEWHERE - - 
Note: 
√:   Commitments in the GATS schedule. 
-:   No commitments either under the GATS or the Agreement. Improved:  Improved commitments made under th e Agreement compared to those under the GATS. 
New:   New commitments made under the Agreement. Not scheduled:  Commitment in the GATS schedule, but not under the Agreement. 
 
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