Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our witnesses. It's very interesting testimony, and quite frankly, I think we have two contrasting but interesting witnesses here.
I do want to pick up, Mr. Tak, on just a couple of points while they're fresh in my mind. I appreciate your comments and your knowledge of doing business in Japan, and importantly, certainly your knowledge of the language and of the way business actually operates and the areas in Japan in which it operates.
I appreciate your comments on the visa office in Tokyo, but to be fair what the minister was doing here was replacing a system under which it takes 30 days to get a visa with an online system under which it should take 10 days to get a visa. If we can get through those hiccups, there really should be an improvement to the system, although I take your point that face-to-face contact, especially in Japan, is important.
I'd just like some clarification on your comments about the nutritional supplements coming out of Japan and then being taxed when they go back in, because it makes no sense whatsoever for us to be importing products from Japan and then paying a tax on those products when they're being shipped back into the country. I don't know if you have a specific recommendation on how to get around that. We can address the situation of those specific products in a free trade agreement.