ANNEX C:

COMPUTER AND RELATED SERVICES

SUMMARY

The free trade agreement should ensure that the following priorities are achieved in computer

and related services:

The trade negotiations for the information technology services sector should achieve full

market access and national treatment commitments for all services relating to information

technology in the on line and off line services.

Liberalization commitments in all services, including computer and related services

should be taken at the highest level possible.

Services commitments should apply when these services are made available over the

Internet.

Software and other digitized products made available online, whether classified as a good

or a service, should receive market access, MFN and national treatment no less favorable

than the products would receive if it were traded as a good through physical delivery.

Both general management consulting and information technology consulting should be

fully liberalized.

As part of the negotiations on information technology services, the parties should ensure

that technical regulations are not prepared, adopted or applied with a view to or with the

effect of creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade in computer and related

services.

Southern African countries should reduce or remove, where appropriate, measures that

impede or restrict the temporary movement of key business personnel.

The Governments should commit to market access and national treatment in government

procurement while ensuring a transparent procurement process.

Services that are needed to create the infrastructure for electronic commerce and services

that can be delivered electronically should be liberalized.

The following paper describes US trade priorities in computer and related services in greater

detail.

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