International Trade committee  Biofuels, absolutely.

International Trade committee  I think the elimination of the tariffs is essential. That would make all of the products that we're sending there more competitive. Those are the wood panels, the engineered lumbers, and those types of things. So any movement on those tariffs—and this deal will result in a zero e

International Trade committee  There are none, really. There are some minor ones, but we're able to negotiate. The pine beetle was a bit of an issue with the lumber that was going there with the blue stain. That was an issue but we've managed to get rid of that. I would just quickly add that you may have seen

International Trade committee  Thank you for that. That was a point I neglected to mention in one of the earlier questions, I think from Mr. Easter, on how we improve our competitiveness in that marketplace and what we're doing. The one thing I did leave out was certainly our environmental performance. Japan

International Trade committee  Two things are happening in the U.S. market. They've stopped building houses. That's the biggest problem for us. The problem when they stop building houses hits you on the wood side, because that's what they build the houses out of. But that's also usually the first indicator of

International Trade committee  I think the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a very important initiative, and obviously the Canadian government has signalled it would like to be at that table, as has the Japanese government. There is some pushback, obviously, and some are trying to prevent us from being at the tabl

International Trade committee  Yes, they do. The MFN, or most favoured nations, are all in that zero to 7.5% range. It's pretty much equal for all of us across the board. What this will do is drop it down to zero for us and obviously put us at a competitive advantage compared to those who still have their tari

International Trade committee  I'm very wary of talking about subsidies in the forest products industry when the U.S. is involved. I can't speak to that. I don't know what the other industries are doing. I certainly know what our industry is doing to make itself more competitive in that marketplace. We're bu

International Trade committee  If I take your question and move back toward that raw log, how can we move up the value chain in some respects? I think the one challenge with Japan is that it is a mature marketplace in the sense that they know how to build with wood, they know they're using the best kinds of

International Trade committee  Absolutely. As I said in my opening remarks, we're an export based industry, and so we're shipping well over $25 billion of our product outside the country every year. The big export producers are right across the country, from B.C. right out to the east coast. As I said, this i

International Trade committee  Absolutely. A number of the companies have helped by sending lumber, and there's certainly been a partnership with the Canadian government as well. It has helped significantly with some money to help them rebuild. A lot of it is relationship building. We've had a relationship,

International Trade committee  I don't know. The raw log debate has got a number of nuances to it. It's a provincial policy, so I can't really speak to it. Obviously, what's happening is that some of the provinces are deciding they'd rather keep a mill running and people hauling logs, and if that means they

International Trade committee  I have not, no, but I would concur with the conclusion.

International Trade committee  No. We have not done a study. When we look at the marketplace, we've been there for over 40 years. It's a very important marketplace to us. For many years, it's been the second most important marketplace for us, aside from the U.S. market. The softwood lumber dispute shows how im

International Trade committee  That's right. Yes.