As Terry said, I'm president of Global Container Terminals. We're the largest container operator in the country. We move about 40% of the containers for the country.
When we look at it, the exports to TPP markets between 2012 and 2014 were valued at more than $366 billion. While these numbers are impressive, I'd like to get down to a number that's a little bit more meaningful to people. Just our company alone pays $329 million in salaries. That supports 2,000 person-years of work. These are well-paying unionized jobs.
I'd like to pick just one example to give everybody an idea of what we're looking at here. If I just look at lumber exports, right now our lumber exports for Canada face a tariff of 10% to Japan, 31% to Vietnam, 40% to Malaysia. When we look at this, there's an opportunity to open up a lucrative market of 792 million consumers through the TPP nations when we're just looking at the lumber.
When I talk about the $329 million in salaries that we have at our company, that's just the last portion of the supply chain. That doesn't include the supply chain and the jobs created from getting trees down, processing them, putting them on the rail, and moving them to whichever port is going to export them. It doesn't count the jobs for the stuffing. It doesn't count the jobs for the trucking to bring it back to the terminal. I'm just giving the one piece of the supply chain that we have.
It's a tremendous amount of economic growth and opportunity for Canada.
Thank you.