Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The first question is complicated and I'll try to give you a very abbreviated answer.
The $3 billion refers roughly to the accumulation of deposits between the time the money started to be collected and the time we got a final decision and notice of final panel action completing a NAFTA process, and concluding that the money had not been collected lawfully. It should never have been collected in the first place.
In the window of that period, under the U.S. interpretation, that money is lost. The United States keeps that money, but it gives you the money subsequently. For example, in the annexes that have been drafted, the United States has drafted two sets of liquidation terms, one that runs through the period up until November 4, 2004, and the other that runs subsequently as a ratification of its interpretation that November 4—the date of filing of a Timken notice—is a date segregating the money that was collected before and after. The money collected before, in the interpretation that NAFTA panels only have prospective authority, means that the NAFTA panel can't give you back the money retrospectively, which a court would.
If I may very briefly answer the question that was really directed to Mr. Cameron about the duration of the litigation, on April 28, the United States should have revoked the countervailing duty order because of the results of the NAFTA panel. It filed on April 27, at five minutes to five, an extraordinary challenge, which the two governments then suspended—although there is no legal way to suspend. Had the process continued to its conclusion, it would necessarily have ended on August 10. Unlike the experience you had with the extraordinary challenge on injury, in which there was an interposed determination under section 129 of the trade law, here there is no interposition. There's nothing in the way. On August 10, if the process had proceeded, the United States would have had to revoke, by law, with no question, no appeals, no other way around, the countervailing duty order. The deposits that are now being collected would have dropped from over 10% to 2%. We think that needs to be compared with what you have in the deal.