Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
Related Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
Liberalisation Measures under CEPA
The Agreement on Trade in Services covers and consolidates commitments relating to liberalisation of trade in services provided in CEPA and its Supplements and also the Agreement between the Mainland and Hong Kong on Achieving Basic Liberalisation of Trade in Services in Guangdong.
Agreement on Trade in Services | |
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Reserved Restrictive Measures under Commercial Presence (Negative List) | |
Sector
Sub-sector |
1. Business services
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Obligations concerned | National Treatment |
Reserved Restrictive Measures |
Commercial Presence
Not to engage in:
1) surveying of tungsten; 2) surveying and beneficiation of rare earths and radioactive mineral products;
3) scientific and technical consulting services related to hydraulic engineering; 4) geodetic survey; aerial photography of survey and mapping; ground movement measuring; administrative region boundary survey and mapping; marine survey and mapping; compilation of topographic maps, world political maps, national administrative region maps, administrative region maps at the provincial level and below, national teaching maps, regional teaching maps and true three-dimensional maps, and compilation of electronic maps for navigation; survey of regional geological mapping, geology for mineral resources, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geologic hazard, and geological remote sensing, etc. |