To give you a couple of statistics, in the year 2000 there were one million non-tariff measures that we could identify. Today, there are over four million. In 20 years, we've gone from one million to four million. These are equivalent to really hard, trade-disruptive tariffs. They're usually the equivalent of between 25% and 40%. A non-tariff barrier is the equivalent of a 40% tariff in some cases. These block trade, effectively, and that's bad news for agri-food exporters.
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