Consumption abroad Sample Clauses

Consumption abroad. Nationals of A have moved abroad as tourists, students, or patients to consume the respective services. The service is provided within A by a locally-established affiliate, subsidiary, or representative office of a foreign-owned and – controlled company (bank, hotel group, construction company, etc.) A foreign national provides a service within A as an independent supplier (e.g., consultant, health worker) or employee of a service supplier (e.g. consultancy firm, hospital, construction company).

Consumption abroad is the provision of a service by a service provider in a member country to a service consumer in another country, where consumers are allowed to purchase financial services while traveling abroad. Bank account in a foreign country (Xxxxxxxxx, 2000, P5).

Consumption abroad. Nationals of A have moved abroad as tourists, students, or patients to consume the respective services. Mode 3: Commercial presence The service is provided within A by a locally-established affiliate, subsidiary, or representative office of a foreign-owned and – controlled company (bank, hotel group, construction company, etc.) Mode 4: Movement of natural persons A foreign national provides a service within A as an independent supplier (e.g., consultant, health worker) or employee of a service supplier (e.g. consultancy firm, hospital, construction company). Commercial linkages may exist among all four modes of supply. For example, a foreign company established under mode 3 in country A may employ nationals from country B (mode 4) to export services cross-border into countries B, C etc. Similarly, business visits into A (mode 4) may prove necessary to complement cross-border supplies into that country (mode 1) or to upgrade the capacity of a locally established office (mode 3). The ability of ASEAN individual professional service providers to provide the same professional service in another ASEAN member state is facilitated by the ASEAN Agreement of the Movement of Natural Persons (MNP Agreement) signed on 19 November 2012 in Cambodia which came into force 180 days thereafter. The MNP Agreement covers temporary entry of skilled workers, professionals and executives. The scope of the MNP Agreement is limited to business visitors, intra-corporate transferees, business visitors and contractual service suppliers. The agreement does not cover permanent entry to such persons including professionals who seek access to employment market and does not apply to unskilled labours. AMS have made commitments under the agreement in the form of the schedule of commitments. In addition, liberalisation of investment in the form of commercial presence of Mode 3 of professional service providers may also fall within the scope of liberalisation of investment sectors under the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA).2 Liberalized services sectors under ACIA include services incidental to manufacturing; services incidental to agriculture; services incidental to fishery; services incidental to forestry; and services incidental to mining and quarrying. The Handbook also discusses the “mutual recognition agreement” (MRA) at the international and ASEAN levels. MRA is one of the important tools to increase the level of utilization of the liberalization of cross-border trade i...

Consumption abroad. Australia considers that this mode of supply applies to services such as the provision of mobile telephony to consumers from outside Australia, home country direct and call back services. Consumption abroad could also apply to telecommunications termination services where the supplier provided the national termination service where the service does not include the international transmission. There are no restrictions on this mode of supply of basic telecommunications services - (including country direct and call-back services) provided the service is compatible with the objects of the Telecommunications International Code of Practice or the provisions of the International Service Providers Class Licence.

Consumption abroad. The service consumer travels to the service provider’s country. One typical example is tourism, but healthcare services (operations, health spa visits) and educational services (university degree, course) can also be utilised abroad.

Consumption abroad refers to situations where a service consumer (e.g. tourist or patient) moves into another Member's territory to obtain a service;

Consumption abroad. Where the consumer travels to the country of the supplier of services (Travelling abroad to obtain education, health services or tourism)

Consumption abroad services supplied in the

Consumption abroad. 3) Commercial presence;

Consumption abroad. For facilities this could relate, for example, to the ability of consumers of other members to use their own GSM cellular or AMPS mobile handsets or hand-held portable satellite equipment in Australia. Commercial presence: Commercial presence applies to those service providers installing and maintaining facilities in the territory of Australia. Presence of natural persons: No sector-specific restrictions apply. See earlier comments on presence of natural persons on page 4. Market access