Bilaterals just cannot deal with these multilateral questions. We just don't see a way to get at some of the topics you're talking about, in terms of subsidies, on a bilateral basis. That's what we did in the Canadian-U.S. free trade agreement. We just set aside a lot of the areas and said, we can't deal with this. That's pretty characteristic. There are some...and certainly we can get some openings for products; we've run into it with Mexico on the sugar side, and so forth. But by and large it's very difficult.
So the WTO is the answer. That's why we support the WTO process so strongly. We don't think it's going to become something irrelevant, or something that is set aside, or whatever. Our expectation would be that eventually some of these other countries are going to realize it has to be in their interests to go forward with a WTO. I think as this process unfolds in the months ahead, they are going to realize that they want it to go forward. They want the United States and Canada to make these concessions—they're valuable to them—and they realize they have to also offer something substantive. It's a hope maybe, but it's also I think our expectation. Again, whether it takes six months or six years, we're not really sure, but eventually it is going to come along.
As for the WTO and the Farm Bill, it has obviously complicated our world in terms of the Farm Bill. But our intention is that we're going to go ahead and write new farm legislation. Our Farm Bill is not going to be written in Geneva; it's going to be written in Washington. That's the approach I think of the administration and of the Congress. It expires roughly at the end of September of 2007, by and large, or with the next crop. That is the kind of timeframe they have to deal with.
There are still certain other constraints. There are budget questions: how much do we have available for it? There are questions the secretary is raising regarding equitable treatment of different products. Under the current Farm Bill a few products receive most of the support. There are a lot of questions. There are questions on biodiesel and biofuels; there are questions on the environment and conservation. There are too many things out there in rural development that we have to deal with in this Farm Bill. We can't wait for some WTO agreement to be concluded. We really have to go forward, and I think that's very much the intention of what they're going to do.