We anticipate that the Market Access Secretariat will continue to focus on opening markets where they're dealing with access issues, but will be moving more into relationship-building, as they've been doing with China.
The emerging markets where we're having the most market access issues are primarily in agricultural countries. The farming means more to them than anything else, even as they're transitioning from a rural to an urban society. There are still 800 million people living in rural China, for example. So as they're making that movement, they're looking to us for knowledge, capacity, training, and so on.
The Market Access Secretariat minister has been signing memorandums of understanding and cooperation with these emerging markets. Because we are successful at resolving market access issues, we hope the Market Access Secretariat will be focusing on the maintenance of market access through these kinds of cooperation agreements.
What we want is access to their markets. What they want is the knowledge and research, the genetics we have—all world-class. They want training in the food safety system so they can produce crops and trade within their regional bases.
We think that if all goes well—no new bird flu or livestock diseases—the Market Access Secretariat will be able to focus as much or more on maintaining access, because we've been successful there.
As far as costs, the number of people on any mission has been going down. People are flying economy across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. We've generally made a commitment to reduce our travel costs each year, so we're prioritizing. At the same time, we're making sure that we develop the best service to industry, our minister, and the government.