Title:General Definitions -- Chapter 2
Author: White House
Document-Date: 29 Sept 1993
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                                      Chapter Two 
 
                                  General Definitions 
 
 
            Article 201:  Definitions of General Application 
 
            1.   For purposes of this Agreement, unless otherwise 
            specified: 
 
            Commission means the Free Trade Commission established under 
            Article 2001(1) (The Free Trade Commission); 
 
            Customs Valuation Code means the Agreement on Implementation of 
            Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 
            including its interpretative notes; 
 
            days means calendar days, including weekends and holidays; 
 
            enterprise means any entity constituted or organized under 
            applicable law, whether or not for profit, and whether 
            privately-owned or governmentally-owned, including any 
            corporation, trust, partnership, sole proprietorship, joint 
            venture or other association; 
 
            enterprise of a Party means an enterprise constituted or 
            organized under the law of a Party; 
 
            existing means in effect on the date of entry into force of 
            this Agreement; 
 
            Generally Accepted Accounting Principles means the recognized 
            consensus or substantial authoritative support in the territory 
            of a Party with respect to the recording of revenues, expenses, 
            costs, assets and liabilities, disclosure of information and 
            preparation of financial statements.  These standards may be 
            broad guidelines of general application as well as detailed 
            standards, practices and procedures; 
 
            goods of a Party means domestic products as these are 
            understood in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or 
            such goods as the Parties may agree, and includes originating 
            goods of that Party; 
 
            Harmonized System (HS) means the Harmonized Commodity 
            Description and Coding System, and its legal notes, as adopted 
            and implemented by the Parties in their respective tariff laws; 
 
            measure includes any law, regulation, procedure, requirement or 
            practice; 
 
 
 
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            national means a natural person who is a citizen or permanent 
            resident of a Party and any other natural person referred to in 
            Annex 201.1; 
 
            originating means qualifying under the rules of origin set out 
            in Chapter Four (Rules of Origin); 
 
            person means a natural person or an enterprise;  
 
            person of a Party means a national, or an enterprise of a 
            Party;  
 
            Secretariat means the Secretariat established under Article 
            2002(1) (The Secretariat); 
 
            state enterprise means an enterprise that is owned, or 
            controlled through ownership interests, by a Party; and 
 
            territory means for a Party the territory of that Party as set 
            out in Annex 201.1. 
 
            2.   For purposes of this Agreement, unless otherwise 
            specified, a reference to a state or province includes local 
            governments of that state or province. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                                                                Annex 201.1                                              
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                                      Annex 201.1 
 
                              Country-Specific Definitions 
 
 
            For purposes of this Agreement, unless otherwise specified: 
 
            national also includes: 
 
                 (a)  with respect to Mexico, a national or a citizen 
                      according to Articles 30 and 34, respectively, of the 
                      Mexican Constitution; and 
 
                 (b)  with respect to the United States, "national of the 
                      United States" as defined in the existing provisions 
                      of the Immigration and Nationality Act; 
 
            territory means: 
 
                 (a)  with respect to Canada, the territory to which its 
                      customs laws apply, including any areas beyond the 
                      territorial seas of Canada within which, in 
                      accordance with international law and its domestic 
                      law, Canada may exercise rights with respect to the 
                      seabed and subsoil and their natural resources; 
 
                 (b)  with respect to Mexico, 
 
                      (i)  the states of the Federation and the Federal 
                           District, 
 
                      (ii) the islands, including the reefs and keys, in 
                           adjacent seas, 
 
                      (iii)     the islands of Guadalupe and Revillagigedo 
                                situated in the Pacific Ocean, 
 
                      (iv) the continental shelf and the submarine shelf of 
                           such islands, keys and reefs, 
 
                      (v)  the waters of the territorial seas, in 
                           accordance with international law, and its 
                           interior maritime waters, 
 
                      (vi) the space located above the national territory, 
                           in accordance with international law, and 
 
 
 
 
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                                                                Annex 201.1                                              
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                      (vii)     any areas beyond the territorial seas of 
                                Mexico within which, in accordance with 
                                international law, including the United 
                                Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 
                                and its domestic law, Mexico may exercise 
                                rights with respect to the seabed and 
                                subsoil and their natural resources; and 
 
                 (c)  with respect to the United States, 
 
                      (i)  the customs territory of the United States, 
                           which includes the 50 states, the District of 
                           Columbia and Puerto Rico, 
 
                      (ii) the foreign trade zones located in the United 
                           States and Puerto Rico, and 
 
                      (iii)     any areas beyond the territorial seas of 
                                the United States within which, in 
                                accordance with international law and its 
                                domestic law, the United States may 
                                exercise rights with respect to the seabed 
                                and subsoil and their natural resources. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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