Thank you to our witnesses for being here. It's not often we get trade officials here at foreign affairs, so I'm kind of excited about that. Indeed, my questions will be around the trade angle. I will have a couple of questions before I turn it over to Mr. Kent. I'll just throw them out there, and then I'll come back and give a little more detail.
My first question is about regulatory co-operation and pre-clearance. You said that it's progressing. One of the first questions we were asked everywhere we went in eastern Europe was about Trump and what's going on. I'll try not to do that to you, but perhaps there are signals, just based on the conversations and dialogue you guys have had, that would indicate how those are going, and whether they'll continue along those ways and there won't be a pullback, given all the other rhetoric that's been said.
The second question is about agriculture subsidies. I know they come up all the time in terms of our supply management system. We talk about softwood lumber. I've heard the number of $30 billion for subsidies in the U.S. I don't know if you guys track those things. They're complicated. I know, from when we've been down there, there's always some program somehow that gets around that kind of stuff. Perhaps you could share some of your thoughts on that.
But let's go back to the first question, which is about regulatory co-operation and pre-clearance. Based on the conversations that have happened, do you see that continuing to still move forward? Do you see any concern, based on some of the other rhetoric that's been going on around that?