Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our witnesses.
Specifically to Mr. Allison's question, in our discussions with some of the EU negotiators the other day, they stated that they do have quota on milk in a number of European countries, so I would expect that should be to our advantage. I don't know where we go with that, but it certainly should help us.
I've got a specific question on lumber exports. I'm sure you guys are very familiar with the problem of lumber exports coming from eastern Canada specifically being cut out of Europe or shut down from Europe for at least 15 years over the pine borer nematode. Products from Canada with bark or needles on them, forest products, are not allowed to be shipped to Europe. You know, we've got 500 years of history of shipping product to Europe, so this should be one specific area that we should be able to deal with, get away from the phytosanitary certificate and go strictly with inspection. We were always able to ship green lumber to the European Union as long as it didn't have bark or needles on it. That was a multi-billion-dollar industry in eastern Canada. We should be able to again, as long as we clarify the rules when we work this agreement out.
Have you folks looked at that, or perhaps, Mr. Verheul, have you looked at that?