Regarding Korea, if I understand correctly, when you refer to an exemption for automobiles, you're referring to exclusion from tariff elimination in the free trade agreement.
As a developed country member of the WTO, when we enter into a free trade agreement, we have to cover what's called “substantially all trade”. This means we have to cover virtually all of the actual trade between our two countries. There isn't a strict threshold, but it's accepted that at least 90% of the trade between countries has to be subject to tariff elimination.
Something in the order of 30% of our imports from Korea are automobiles, so I think the notion of trying to outright exclude automobiles from tariff elimination would be very difficult to consider. In fact, in all our free trade agreements to date, the Canadian approach has been to cover all industrial products through the tariff elimination and then have exemptions in only very limited areas, among agricultural products.
Automobiles and ships and all other industrial products would be subject to tariff exclusion or elimination in the FTA with Korea. But that doesn't mean the government doesn't have other levers with which to address the sensitivities of the automobile industry. For example, the length of time over which the tariff would be phased out with Korea is negotiable.
Also, we're working very closely with the automobile industry to look at how we can address non-tariff barriers in the Korean market, because this is one of the issues they brought to our attention quite forcefully, that there are some challenges getting their product into Korea. We're working with the industry to figure out what kinds of provisions we can build into the agreement itself to deal with the non-tariff barriers in Korea.