International Trade committee  I would look to anywhere that you see tariff peaks, to where those are coming down. Unfortunately, I don't have the data in front of me on which areas still have high tariffs. I believe there are a few. I keep going back to dairy, and that's a particular area. I know that we have a couple in some distinct specific manufactured products.

International Trade committee  That's a great question. I would have to say Mandarin. We've just released a paper on a Canada-China FTA, and the market potential there is huge.

International Trade committee  On ratification, I think it's very important. I think we should make every effort to ratify this as quickly as possible. I know there's a tendency to want to wait for the Americans, but I think it's really good if we show a strong sign of support to, for example, our Japanese partners, that we're serious about this and we want to get this done.

International Trade committee  That's a great question. I don't think that SMEs necessarily know about the full range of services available. We've actually done a recent study on this among our members, and we found that a lot of the time large companies are helpful in bringing small companies into market. On average, our members use about $750 million in inputs from SMEs, and then they can help introduce them to new companies abroad.

International Trade committee  I think there's huge potential. With the right government support, I think there's huge potential. The market alone is enough to drive an SME to look at it, and then they simply need to know that our trade commissioner service, which is top class, is there to help them and to help them access that market.

International Trade committee  I have to go to financial services again as the one that I think can really benefit, but other areas including engineering services and architectural services are areas in which we have a really distinct advantage. Another sector, for example, is infrastructure and transportation.

International Trade committee  I'm not aware of any.

International Trade committee  There are about one hundred and fifty.

International Trade committee  Do you mean amongst our membership?

International Trade committee  There are always going to be concerns with certain sectors and industries, of course. I don't know if you'd find any major trade agreement of this size for which you'd get unanimous approval.

International Trade committee  I think the most high-profile one, which you obviously would have heard about already, was from the automotive sector. There have been some concerns there particularly with the rules of origin. We're going from 62.5% to 45% originating content, so that has been one area that's been an issue.

International Trade committee  The auto sector is still a huge component of the Canadian economy, of course, and it's reflected in our membership through both original producers and auto parts manufacturers as well.

International Trade committee  Absolutely. To give you an example, we would have worked with our auto manufacturers and relayed some of the concerns around the rules of origin and the fact that it had come to such a low 45%, as opposed to 62.5%. That was one area where we raised that concern with negotiators and made it clear that we would have liked to have seen a higher threshold.

International Trade committee  With the current government, so far we have seen the call for input, so we've submitted our position to the government on that, and then, frankly, we are here at committee. Those have been our consultations to date.

International Trade committee  This is not an example from my membership, but one area where we obviously saw some rather strong reservations was in the dairy sector in supply-managed goods. As I'm sure you know and you've heard, Australia and New Zealand are obviously extremely powerful in that industry, so that's a pretty significant competitive threat to Canadian producers.