I'd like to take this opportunity to clarify something about the 90% cut-off point for milk protein concentrates in the United States. That cut-off point actually has very little practical significance for American dairy farmers. Unlike in Canada, the United States has no TRQ in chapter 4 to cover milk protein concentrates; as a result, milk protein concentrates below 90% are imported in the U.S. at an extremely low tariff rate. American dairy farmers have been lobbying their government for several years to create a TRQ, but they have had no success. As I said, whether the MPCs are classified under chapter 4 or chapter 35 in the United States has no practical impact.
As far as the trade in these products is concerned, if I recall correctly, from 2001 to 2005, imports into the United States of milk protein concentrates increased by 50%. On May 11, when they appeared before you, the Dairy Farmers of Canada provided their own trade data of imports of milk protein concentrates into Canada. Our data, which is from Statistics Canada, is consistent with the Dairy Farmers of Canada's data, and also shows that imports of these products have been stable at approximately 6,000 tonnes in the last few years.