Yes. The thing about the value-added industry on the coast of British Columbia is that it's very commercially driven. When we undertook our value-added study, we were very interested to see the breadth of the industry on the coast. There are over 160 firms. We surveyed a hundred of them. Those one hundred were directly involved in converting B.C. coastal products into value-added products.
So for us, with the value-added perspective in mind, among the things that are important is making sure those products do not attract tariffs, and we think CETA gets us on that. We want to ensure there are no non-tariff trade barriers in respect to that.
The value-added guys right now have a problem with chain of custody in terms of trying to demonstrate to the Europeans that the wood is sourced, that it comes basically from us to us as a log and we convert it into lumber, and then they are going to turn around and try to convert that lumber into some kind of value-added product. It's very onerous for a small company to try to track that chain of custody, so they have an issue there. CETA has a framework around that. We're actively working on that with NRCan, with the international trade department, and with our provincial counterparts, who I notice are here, to ensure that we simplify those systems and make sure the value-added guys don't get locked out.
Those are the two main issues for us. Other market access issues may come up.
This lumber grading issue comes up every once in a while. The EU has their own standards for lumber grading, so that remanufacturers trying to send some boards in there need to have the appropriate stamps, certifications, and those kinds of things. If we don't do that right, they'll get buried under bureaucracy and not be able to capitalize on those markets.