NAFTA Chapter Six Energy and Basic Petrochemicals
Article 601: Principles
1. The Parties confirm their full respect for their Constitutions.
2. The Parties recognize that it is desirable to strengthen the important role that trade in energy and basic petrochemical goods play in the North American region and to enhance this role through sustained and gradual liberalization.
3. The Parties recognize the importance of having viable and internationally competitive energy and petrochemical sectors to further their individual national interests.
Article 602: Scope and Coverage
1. This Chapter applies to measures relating to energy and basic petrochemical goods originating in the territories of the Parties and to measures relating to investment and services associated with such energy and basic petrochemical goods, as set forth in this Chapter.
2. For purposes of this Chapter, energy and basic petrochemical goods refer to those goods classified under the Harmonized System as:
(a) Chapter 27 (excluding: subheadings 2707.10, 2707.20, 2707.30, 2707.40, 2707.60, 2707.91, 2707.99 (except solvent naphtha, rubber extender oils and carbon black feedstocks), and in subheading 2710.00 (only normal paraffin mixtures in the range of C9 to C15), and in heading 2711 (only ethylene, propylene, butylene and butadiene, in purities over 50 percent));
(b) subheading 2612.10;