Thank you.
Taiwan has virtually no domestic cattle market to protect. It is regulatory hesitation to move in a direction they know--and international organizations recommend--they should move in. It is a fear of political backlash organized primarily by a very well-funded and well-organized consumer association. They just want to go slowly and quietly.
For Korea, it is more direct protection of their domestic industry. Korea, for example, produces approximately 260,000 metric tonnes of beef, which is about a quarter of what we produce in Canada. They don't want to give that up.
The science is quite clear. The international organizations that we all belong to are quite clear. The risks have been mitigated.
I would say that these two countries are unique, but I can't say that they are. Canada, for example, even today, has import restrictions in place. We do not allow the importation of beef from any country that has had even one case of BSE, irrespective of the steps they've taken to make the product safe--except from the United States, because of a ministerial order, a prohibition order.
So even we haven't moved with confidence, and the Taiwanese were very clear in their submission to us that we're asking them to do something that we haven't done ourselves.