Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good morning, gentlemen.
One can see, in the witness categories, that one does not go without the other, in the context of the examination of international trade policy. I think that you are all important players in this field. The department, of course, needs information in order to plan its policies, and it depends considerably on statistics. In order to guarantee the reliability of their statistics, statisticians must also depend on the agency.
In light of the problems you have identified and enumerated, are there what might be termed international statistical conventions to balance things out which would, for instance, make the Mexico-Canada table identical with regard to imports on the one hand, and exports on the other? Are there any international statistical conventions?