An equivalency agreement is when we look at outcome-based regulation. If it's an inspection system—how we inspect meat, pork, whatever—we have an equivalency that our outcome, the protection based on risk, is the same as the other country. It doesn't mean that we do something exactly the same. It's not prescribed “one, two, three, four”. It means the outcome, protecting the health and the safety of the product, is equivalent. We deem it equivalent.
The two countries evaluate each other's systems. Do they have the positions in place to ensure that the outcome is exactly to the level of safety of the other country? Then it would be deemed equivalent. It's not done with every country. You have to have similar inspection systems. You try to have equivalent systems with other countries because it provides flexibility in how you will interact with that country.