If I may, Mr. Cannan, you mentioned that maybe Canadian industry needs to diversify its approach. As I mentioned in my remarks, and I think it should be well documented in the papers we've provided, the profile of the Korean market is very similar to that of Canada. The products we build in Canada can compete head to head with the market segments in Korea.
As Mr. Fedchun has just pointed out, we continue to be faced with these non-tariff barriers to trade. They have included not just a constantly changing landscape in terms of non-tariff barriers but things like higher consumer taxes on imported vehicles and mandatory government testing on specific vehicles, like 4x4s, when in fact they didn't have the test facilities in place for two years after they imposed that. We cannot send vehicles over to that market only to have them sit on the dock for a month, let alone two years.
There are other things, like different licence plate requirements, which are what I call Frankenstein regulations. They cherry-picked emission standards from around the world and put them into their regulations, which is why virtually no vehicle manufacturer could meet those standards. These are all typical non-tariff barriers.
I might add that I've appeared previously before committees on this issue. I've been flanked by both the beef and pork industries, and they too have experienced non-tariff barriers. So this is something that is not specific to autos. Many different sectors, and certainly our own sector, experience these ongoing shifting lists of barriers as we go forward.
As I mentioned, no vehicle manufacturer, regardless of where they produce in the world, has had any major success in this market.