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The W120: Services Sectoral Classification List



SERVICES SECTORAL CLASSIFICATION LIST

Note by the Secretariat

The secretariat indicated in its informal note containing the draft classification list (24 May 1991) that it would prepare a revised version based on comments from participants. The attached list incorporates, to the extent possible, such comments. It could, of course, be subject to further modification in the light of developments in the services negotiations and ongoing work elsewhere.   





SECTORS AND SUB-SECTORS
                                     CORRESPONDING CPC

1. BUSINESS SERVICES                                                                            

A. Professional Services

a. Legal Services
b. Accounting, auditing and bookeeping services
c. Taxation Services
d. Architectural services
e. Engineering services
f. Integrated engineering services
g. Urban planning and landscape architectural services
h. Medical and dental services
i. Veterinary services
j. Services provided by midwives, nurses,
physiotherapists and para-medical personnel
k. Other

B. Computer and Related Services
a. Consultancy services related to the installation
of computer hardware
b. Software implementation services
c. Data processing services
d. Data base services
e. Other

C. Research and Development Services

a. R&D services on natural sciences
b. R&D services on social sciences and humanities
c. Interdisciplinary R&D services

D. Real Estate Services
a. Involving own or leased property
b. On a fee or contract basis

E. Rental/Leasing Services without Operators
a. Relating to ships
b. Relating to aircraft
c. Relating to other transport equipment 
d. Relating to other machinery and equipment
e. Other

F. Other Business Services

a. Advertising services
b. Market research and public opinion polling services
c. Management consulting service
d. Services related to man. consulting
e. Technical testing and analysis services
f. Services incidental to agriculture, hunting and forestry
g. Services incidental to fishing
h. Services incidental to mining
i. Services incidental to manufacturing
j. Services incidental to energy distribution
k. Placement and supply services of Personnel
l. Investigation and security
m. Related scientific and technical consulting services
n. Maintenance and repair of equipment (not including maritime vessels, aircraft or other transport equipment)
o. Building-cleaning services
p. Photographic services
q. Packaging services
r. Printing, publishing
s. Convention services
t. Other


2. COMMUNICATION SERVICES

A. Postal services

B. Courier services

C. Telecommunication services

a. Voice telephone services
b. Packet-switched data transmission services
c. Circuit-switched data transmission services
d. Telex services
e. Telegraph services
f. Facsimile services
g. Private leased circuit services
h. Electronic mail
i. Voice mail
j. On-line information and data base retrieval
k. electronic data interchange (EDI)
l. enhanced/value-added facsimile services, incl. store
and forward, store and retrieve
m. code and protocol conversion
n. on-line information and/or data processing (incl.transaction processing)
o. other

D. Audiovisual services

a. Motion picture and video tape production
and distribution services
b. Motion picture projection service
c. Radio and television services
d. Radio and television transmission services
e. Sound recording
f. Other

E. Other


3. CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED 
ENGINEERING SERVICES

A. General construction work for buildings

B. General construction work for civil engineering

C. Installation and assembly work

D. Building completion and finishing work

E. Other


4. DISTRIBUTION SERVICES

A. Commission agents' services

B. Wholesale trade services

C. Retailing services

D. Franchising

E. Other


5. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

A. Primary education services

B. Secondary education services

C. Higher education services

D. Adult education

E. Other education services

 

6. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

A. Sewage services

B. Refuse disposal services

C. Sanitation and similar services

D. Other

 

7. FINANCIAL SERVICES

A. All insurance and insurance-related services
a. Life, accident and health insurance services
b. Non-life insurance services
c. Reinsurance and retrocession
d. Services auxiliary to insurance
(including broking and agency services)

B. Banking and other financial service (excl. insurance)

a. Acceptance of deposits and other repayable
funds from the public
b. Lending of all types, incl., inter alia, consumer credit, mortgage credit, factoring and financing of commercial transaction
c. Financial leasing
d. All payment and money transmission services
e. Guarantees and commitments
f. Trading for own account or for account of customers, whether on an exchange, in an over-the-counter market or otherwise, the following:
- money market instruments (cheques, bills,
certificate of deposits, etc.)
- foreign exchange
- derivative products incl., but not limited to,
futures and options
- exchange rate and interest rate instruments,
including products such  as swaps, forward rate
agreements, etc.
- transferable securities
- other negotiable instruments and financial
assets, incl. bullion
g. Participation in issues of all kinds of securities,
incl. under-writing and placement as agent
(whether publicly or privately) and provision of
service related to such issues
h. Money broking
i. Asset management, such as cash or portfolio
management, all forms of collective investment
management, pension fund management, custodial
depository and trust services
j. Settlement and clearing services for financial
assets, incl. securities, derivative products,or
and other negotiable instruments
k. Advisory and other auxiliary financial services on all the activities listed or in Article 1B of MTN.TNC/W/50, incl. credit reference and
analysis, investment and portfolio research and advice, advice on acquisitions and on corporate restructuring and strategy
l. Provision and transfer of financial information, and financial data processing and related software by providers of other financial services

C. Other

8. HEALTH RELATED AND SOCIAL SERVICES
(other than those listed under 1.A.h-j.)

A. Hospital services

B. Other Human Health Services

C. Social Services

D. Other


9. TOURISM AND TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES

A. Hotels and restaurants (incl. catering)

B. Travel agencies and tour operators services

C. Tourist guides services

D. Other


10. RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SPORTING SERVICES
(other than audiovisual services)

A. Entertainment services (including theatre, live
bands and circus services)

B. News agency services

C. Libraries, archives, museums and other
cultural services

D. Sporting and other recreational services

E. Other


11. TRANSPORT SERVICES

A. Maritime Transport Services

a. Passenger transportation
b. Freight transportation
c. Rental of vessels with crew
d. Maintenance and repair of vessels
e. Pushing and towing services
f. Supporting services for maritime transport

B. Internal Waterways Transport

a. Passenger transportation
b. Freight transportation
c. Rental of vessels with crew
d. Maintenance and repair of vessels
e. Pushing and towing services
f. Supporting services for internal waterway transport

C. Air Transport Services

a. Passenger transportation
b. Freight transportation
c. Rental of aircraft with crew
d. Maintenance and repair of aircraft
e. Supporting services for air transport

D. Space Transport

E. Rail Transport Services

a. Passenger transportation
b. Freight transportation
c. Pushing and towing services
d. Maintenance and repair of rail transport equipment
e. Supporting services for rail transport services

F. Road Transport Services

a. Passenger transportation
b. Freight transportation
c. Rental of commercial vehicles with operator
d. Maintenance and repair of road transport equipment
e. Supporting services for road transport services

G. Pipeline Transport

a. Transportation of fuels
b. Transportation of other goods

H. Services auxiliary to all modes of transport

a. Cargo-handling services
b. Storage and warehouse services
c. Freight transport agency services
d. Other

I. Other Transport Services


12. OTHER SERVICES NOT INCLUDED 
ELSEWHERE

Section B

 


861
862
863
671
672
673

674
312
932

93191

 

841
842
843
844
845+849

 


851
852
853


821
822


83103
83104
83101+83102+83105
83106-83109
832



871

864
865
866
8676

881
882
883+5115
884+885(except for 88442)
887
872
873

8675

633+
8861-8866
874
875
876
88442
87909*
8790

 


7511

7512

 

7521
7523**
7523**
7523**
7522
7521**+7529**
7522**+7523**
7523**
7523**
7523**
7523**

7523**

n.a.

843**

 



9611
9612
9613
7524
n.a.

 

 


512

513

514+516

517

511+515+518


621

622

631+6332
6111+6113+6121

8929

 

 


921

922

923

924

929

 

 

9401

9402

9403

 

 

 

812**
8121
8129
81299*

8140

 

 

81115-81119

8113
8112
81339**
81199**



81339**

81333

81339**


81339**
81321*

81339**



8132
81339**

8119+**
81323*

81339**
81319**

 


8131 or 8133


8131

 

 

 

9311

9319
(other than 93191)

933

 

 



641-643

7471

7472

 

 

 

 

9619

962


963

964

 

 

 


7211
7212
7213
8868**
7214
745**

 

7221
7222
7223
8868**
7224

745**

 

731
732
734
8868**
746

733



7111
7112
7113

8868**
743

 

7121+7122
7123
712

6112+8867
744



7131
7139



741
742
748
749

 



95+97+98+99

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The (*) indicates that the service specified is a component of a more aggregated CPC item specified elsewhere in this classification list.

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 a component of CPC item 7523).







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