The enforcement of patents in foreign countries is important for exporters. We have some data, actually. I don't know if I can bring it up quickly. Yes, here it is.
The RCMP has reported over $76 million in retail seizures in Canada, in 2011, of counterfeit goods. The OECD estimates that global trade in counterfeit and pirated goods amounted to $250 billion in 2007. The International Chamber of Commerce estimated the cost of counterfeiting in G-20 countries at $62 billion, equating that with 2.5 million jobs lost.
One of the things that has recently happened is the ACTA. Some countries were involved in that. I can bring them up. China was not one of them, but definitely there were some key export markets: Australia, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States. Those are all countries that got together to try to develop the ACTA, which is the international gold standard of IP enforcement currently.