Mr. Chair, there is no doubt that the CFIA is taking the threat of the introduction of ASF into Canada very seriously. It obviously would have devastating impacts on the industry.
We obviously are focusing on prevention, on biosecurity and, in particular, on the preparedness activities. Part of those preparedness activities is to promote business continuity. One of the elements of that business continuity is ensuring that we have international zoning arrangements in place.
We currently have zoning arrangements for the U.S., the European Union, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong. That makes up about 39% of the pork exports in dollar value from 2023. We are in the process of continuing our negotiations with the United Kingdom, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Chile and Mexico. When those are completed, that would actually have coverage through these arrangements of just under 79% of our annual dollar value of pork exports from 2023.
As it relates to how we would deal with any surplus hogs in that event, I will have to turn to my colleagues at AAFC.