At 11:41 AM 10/1/98 -0400, Brent Eades so eloquently stated:
>On 1 Oct 98, Rainmaker wrote:
>
>> Guess this will last until Canada discovers that time is money
>> and services should be taxed with export duties as are products.
>> It's like the calculations for the Gross National Product --
>> they do not include services, only manufacturing.
>
>
>Canada, together with the US and Mexico, is a signatory to the North
>American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which regulates most forms of
>trade -- in goods *and* services -- between those countries. NAFTA has
>eliminated or will eliminate preferential tariffs on a whole host of cross-
>border services.
>
>These notably include construction, engineering, accounting, commercial
>education, health care management, advertising, environmental services,
>tourism, land transport, consulting and architecture. Banking, air services
>and telecommunications fall under special sections of the act, but the
>general trend is still towards tariff reduction between Canada and the US.
>
You're correct, of course. Has anybody traveled between the US
and Canada with software ion their briefcase? It used to be a
big problem a couple of years ago, and I wonder if it has
changed. Some of our business partners are located in Winnipeg and Montreal.
George
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