WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  S/DCS/W/BRB/Rev.1 
1 June 2005  
 (05-2224) 
Trade in Services  
 
 
 
 
BARBADOS 
 
Draft consolidated Schedule of Specific Commitments1 
 
Revision  
  
 Attached is the revised version of the draf t consolidated Schedule of Specific Commitments 
of Barbados in word format.  This document  does not substitute for the legally binding commitments 
undertaken by Barbados in its Schedule of Sp ecific Commitments (GATS/SC/9; GATS/SC/9/Suppl.1) 
  The draft consolidated version of the Schedule w as prepared by the Secretariat, at the request 
of Members, to facilitate the process of negotia tions, including the presentation of initial offers. 
 
 The revised document contains corrections to  entries relating to the telecommunications 
section of the schedule (2. COMMUNICATION SERVICES, C. Telecommunication Services), on pages 3-6.  
• Pages 3-5, C. Telecommunication Services;  the word "CPC" has been removed from all 
sectoral entries. 
 
• Page 3, C. Telecommunication Services;  For public use; the entry under Mode 1 in the 
Market Access column now reads: "Until 1 Ja nuary 2012, reserved to exclusive suppliers" 
instead of "Until 1 January 2012, reserved to exclusive supplier". 
 
• Page 5, the entry in the sector column now reads "Other," instead of "(o) Other."  
 
• Page 5, VSAT services (for non-public use) is i ndented, to show that it is a sub-category of 
Fixed Satellite Services.  The Mode 4 entry in  the Market Access column of the same sub-
sector now reads:  "Unbound except as indicated  in the horizontal section" instead of 
"Unbound, except as indicated in the horizontal section". 
 
 
  
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1 This document has been prepared, in English only,  under the Secretariat's own responsibility and without 
prejudice to the positions of Members and to their rights and obligations under the WTO.   
 S/DCS/W/BRB/Rev.1 
Page 2 BARBADOS – SCHEDULE OF SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS 
 
Modes of supply:  1) Cross-border supply 2) Consumption abroad 3) Commercial presence 4) Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub-sector Limitations on Market Access Limi tations on  National Treatm ent Additional Commitments 
I. HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS 
 ALL SECTORS 
INCLUDED IN THIS 
SCHEDULE  
   
 
  
 3) The Property Transfer Ta x Act stipulates that a 
foreign investor interested in the purchase or sale of land or shares/stocks is subject to a 
specific tax on the value of settlement  
 
 4) The Immigration Act and regulations control 
the entry and residence of all foreign natural 
persons working in Barbados.  Prior to a natural person working in Barbados a work 
permit must be obtained.  Labour market tests 
are conducted. 
  
  
II. SECTOR-SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS 
 
1. BUSINESS SERVICES    
 
A. Professional Services  
    
(a) Legal services  
 (CPC 86130 - legal 
documentation and 
certification services) 1) Unbound 
2) Unbound 
3) Only a natural person can practice law 
4) An attorney has to be admitted to the local Bar 
and registered as required under the Legal 
Profession Act 
 1) Unbound 
2) Unbound 
3) Not applicable 
4) None  
(h) Medical services   (CPC 93122 - specialized 
medical services) 
 
 1) Unbound 
2) Unbound 3) Only a natural person can practice medicine 
4) Under the Medical Registration Act, all 
medical practitioners must be registered 1) Unbound 
2) Unbound 3) Not applicable 
4) None   
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 Page 3Modes of supply:  1) Cross-border supply 2) Consumption abroad 3) Commercial presence 4) Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub-sector Limitations on Market Access Limi tations on  National Treatm ent Additional Commitments 
B. Computer and Related 
Services  
    
(b) Software implementation 
services  
 (CPC 842)  1) None 
2) None 
3) None 4) None 
 1) None 
2) None 
3) None 4) None 
  
2. COMMUNICATION 
SERVICES 
    
B. Courier Services  
 (CPC 7512) 
 1) None 
2) None 
3) None 
4) None  1) None 
2) None 
3) None 
4) None   
 
C. Telecommunication 
Services  
    
 For public use : 
 
(a) Voice telephone services  
 (7521) (b) Packet-switched data 
transmission services  
 (7523**) (c) Circuit-switched data 
transmission services  
 (7523**) (d) Telex services  
 (7523**) 
 1) Until 1 January 2012, reserved to exclusive 
suppliers. 
2) None 
3) Until 1 January 2012, reserved to exclusive 
suppliers. 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
 1) None 
 
2) None 
3) None  
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. Barbados undertakes the  
obligations contained in  
the reference paper hereto  
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Page 4 Modes of supply:  1) Cross-border supply 2) Consumption abroad 3) Commercial presence 4) Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub-sector Limitations on Market Access Limi tations on  National Treatm ent Additional Commitments 
(e) Telegraph services  
 (7522) (f) Facsimile services  
 (7521**, 7529**) 
(g) Private leased circuit 
services (7522**, 7523**) 
   
  
 
 For non-public use   
(i.e. closed user groups, on a non-facilities basis): 
 
(a) Voice telephone services  (7521) 
(b) Packet-switched data 
transmission (7523**) 
(c) Circuit-switched data 
transmission services  
 (7523**) (d) Telex services  
 (7523**) 
(e) Telegraph services  
 (7522) 
(f) Facsimile services   (7521**, 7529**) 
  
  
 
1) Until 1 January 2012, only permitted over 
networks of the exclusive suppliers;  two-
ended break-out not permitted. 
2) None 3) Until 1 January 2012, only permitted over 
networks of the exclusive suppliers;  two-
ended break-out not permitted. 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
  
  
 
1) None  
 
2) None 3) None 
 
 4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
  
 
 Value-added services : 
 
(h) Electronic mail 
 (7523**) (i) Voice mail (7523**) 
(j) On-line information and 
data base retrieval  
 (7523**) 
(k) Electronic data interchange 
(7523**)  
 
1) None 
2) None 3) None 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
1) None 
2) None 3) None 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
   
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Sector or Sub-sector Limitations on Market Access Limi tations on  National Treatm ent Additional Commitments 
(l) Enhanced-value-added 
facsimile services, incl. store and forward, store and 
retrieve (7523**) 
(m) Code and protocol 
conversion 
(n) On-line information and/or 
data processing (incl. transaction processing 
(843**) 
  
  
  
   
 
Other     
- Internet and internet access 
services 
 1) None 
2) None 3) None 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
 1) None 
2) None 3) None 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
  
 
- Mobile services (terrestrial 
and satellite based) 
 - cellular/mobile telephone 
 services  - mobile data services 
 - personal communication 
 services  - paging 
 1) None as of 1 January 1999 
2) None 
3) None as of 1 January 1999 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
 1) None 
2) None 
3) None 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
  
 
- Fixed Satellite Services  
 - VSAT services (for non-
public use) 1) None, except:  two-ended break-out is not 
permitted. 
2) None, except:  two-ended break-out is not 
permitted. 
3) None, except:  two-ended break-out is not 
permitted. 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
 1) None 
 
2) None 
 3) None 
 
4) Unbound expect as indicated in the horizontal 
section.   
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Page 6 Modes of supply:  1) Cross-border supply 2) Consumption abroad 3) Commercial presence 4) Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub-sector Limitations on Market Access Limi tations on  National Treatm ent Additional Commitments 
- Telecom equipment sales, 
rental, maintenance, connection, repair and 
consulting services 
 (7541, 7545)  1) None 
2) None 
3) None 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
 1) None 
2) None 
3) None 
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section 
  
7. FINANCIAL SERVICES 
   
  
 
A. All Insurance and 
Insurance-Related Services  
    
(c) Reinsurance 
 (CPC 812)1 
 1) None 
2) None 
3) None 
4) None  1) None 
2) None 
3) None 
4) None   
10. RECREATIONAL, 
CULTURAL AND SPORTING SERVICES 
   
 
A. Entertainment Services 
(CPC 96191 – theatrical, 
producer, singer group, band and orchestra, 
entertainment services) 1) None 
2) None 
3) None 4) None 
 1) None 
2) None 
3) None 4) None 
  
 
  Classifications are based on the Services Sectoral Classificat ion List. MTN.GNS/W/120 and the UN Provisional Central Product C lassification. 
                                                           
 1 The service specified constitutes only a part of the total range of activities covered by the CPC Classification.    S/DCS/W/BRB/Rev.1 
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  REFERENCE PAPER   
 
Scope  
 The following are definitions an d principles on the regulatory framework for the basic 
telecommunications services.   
 
Definitions
 
 Users
 mean service consumers and service suppliers.   
 Essential facilities
 mean facilities of a public telecommunica tions transport network or service that 
 
 (a) are exclusively or predominantly provided by a single or limited number of suppliers;  
and 
  (b) cannot feasibly be economically or technica lly substituted in order to provide a service. 
 
A major supplier
 is a supplier which has the ability to materially affect the terms of participation (having 
regard to price and supply) in the relevant market for basic telecommunications services as a result of: 
  (a) control over essential facilities;  or  
 (b) use of its position in the market. 
  1. Competitive safeguards
 
 
1.1 Prevention of anti-competitive practices in telecommunications  
  Appropriate measures shall be maintained for the purpose of preventing suppliers who, alone or 
together, are a major supplier  from engaging in or continui ng anti-competitive practices. 
 1.2 Safeguards
 
 
 The anti-competitive practices referred to above shall include in particular:   (a) engaging in anti-competitive cross-subsidization;    
 (b) using information obtained from competitors with anti-competitive results;  and 
  (c) not making available to other servi ces suppliers on a timely basis technical  information 
about essential facilities an d commercially relevant inform ation which are necessary for 
them to provide services.  S/DCS/W/BRB/Rev.1 
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 2. Interconnection  
 
2.1 This section applies to linking with supplie rs providing public teleco mmunications transport 
networks or services in order to allow the users of one supplier to communicate with users of another 
supplier and  to access services provided by a nother supplier, where sp ecific commitments are 
undertaken. 
 
 2.2 Interconnection to be ensured
 
  Interconnection with a major suppl ier will be ensured at any tec hnically feasible point in the 
network.  Such interc onnection is provided. 
 
 (a) under non-discriminatory terms, cond itions (including tec hnical standards and 
specifications) and rates and of a quality no less favourable than that provided for its 
own like services or for like services of non-affiliated se rvice suppliers or for its 
subsidiaries or other affiliates; 
 
 (b) in a timely fashion, on terms, co nditions (including technical standards and 
specifications) and cost-oriented rates that are transparent, reasonable, having regard to economic feasibility, and suffi ciently unbundled so that the supplier need not pay for 
network components or facilities  that it does not require for the service to be provided;  
and 
 
 (c) upon request, at points in addition to th e network termination points offered to the 
majority of users, subject to charges that reflect the cost of construction of necessary 
additional facilities. 
 
 
2.3 Public availability of the procedures for interconnection negotiations
 
  The procedures applicable for interconnec tion to a major supplier will be made publicly 
available.  
 
2.4 Transparency of interconnection arrangements
 
  It is ensured that a major supplier will make publicly availa ble either its interconnection 
agreements or a reference interconnection offer. 
 
 2.5 Interconnection:  dispute settlement
 
  A service supplier requesting in terconnection with a major supplie r will have recourse, either: 
 
 (a) at any time or   (b) after a reasonable period of time  which has been made publicly known 
 to an independent domestic body, which may be a regu latory body as referred to  in paragraph 5 below, 
to resolve disputes regarding a ppropriate terms, cond itions and rates for interconnection within a 
reasonable period of time, to the extent that  these have not been established previously. 
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3. Universal service  
  Any Member has the right to define the kind  of universal service obligation it wishes to 
maintain.  Such obligations will not be regarded as anti-competitive per se , provided they are 
administered in a transparent, non-discriminatory and comp etitively neutral manner and are not more 
burdensome than necessary for the kind of universal service defined by the Member.        4. Public availability of licensing criteria
 
 
 Where a licence is required, the following will be made publicly available: 
  (a) all the licensing criteria and the period of time normally require d to reach a decision 
concerning an application for a licence  and 
 
 (b) the terms and conditions of  individual licences. 
  The reasons for the denial of a licence w ill be made known to the applicant upon request. 
  5. Independent regulators
 
 
 The regulatory body is separate from, and not accountable to, any supplier of basic 
telecommunications services. The decisions of and the procedures used by regul ators shall be impartial 
with respect to all market participants.  
 
6. Allocation and use of scarce resources
 
  Any procedures for the allocation and use of scarce resources, including frequencies, numbers and rights of way, will be carr ied out in an objective, timely, transparent and non-discriminatory 
manner. The current st ate of allocated frequency bands will be made publicly available, but detailed 
identification of frequencies allocated for specific government us es is not required. 
  
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