We are seeing a lot of NTBs growing now for pesticides and pesticide approval systems deferred from one country to another. We see pesticides that have been approved here in Canada as being safe by Health Canada—which is setting very high, science-based standards—that are not being approved in other countries sometimes. That makes it technically challenging for growers using our products safely here in Canada to export. We see a broad range of new measures on pesticides.
We also see continued challenges in the approval of biotechnology crops in exporting markets. In China and Europe, it could take up to 10 or 12 years before they approve safe and effective technologies that have been approved here in Canada. This is preventing growers in Canada from accessing and using these safe technologies.
If not growing, we see these barriers sometimes expanding to other markets outside of the major ones.