This is always mentioned by people within our industry. In our discussions with wine producers around the world, we hear that the European Union wine industry is heavily subsidized. Unfortunately, they're able to provide support to their producers in a way that is very difficult to challenge under international trade rules at the WTO. Their transparency is such that they can bury things deeper at the member state level, and therefore their industry gets significant support. It's difficult for anybody in the world to identify some of those programs as being non-compliant under international trade rules.
