International Trade committee  We'll split it. Nick will introduce it.

International Trade committee  Mr. Chairman, committee members, I'd like to spend the rest of our time highlighting one emerging challenge that all commodity exports will increasingly face in the years to come, as current zero thresholds that are on the books in importing companies collide with analytical meth

International Trade committee  Yes, but they are in the process of being sunsetted through the existing FTAs. For example, we have 4,240 tonnes of dry edible bean TRQ into Colombia. That won't become completely duty free with unlimited quota until 2020. It was originally scheduled to be 2022, but it's two year

International Trade committee  Exactly correct. Yes.

International Trade committee  This is a good question. Let me answer it in two parts. First of all, the residues present in pulse crops in the vast majority of cases can't even be detected using today's analytical methods, so they're not different from zero. Our residues in pulse crops from Canada are so low

International Trade committee  Legumes are a category of plants that draw their nitrogen directly from the atmosphere, so they self-fertilize with respect to nitrogen. Pulses specifically are a subcategory of legumes that are the edible seeds of legume plants, excluding oil seeds. In practical terms, for us th

International Trade committee  Or a breach, or a trade disruption.

International Trade committee  Let me answer by way of noting what the pulse industry is asking, along with other Canadian and international grain industries, as well as other agriculture sectors within the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We're asking for an SPS rapid committee, which is the equivalent of a small

International Trade committee  It would have to increase in scope for it to have a material benefit for us.

International Trade committee  I'll be very brief. Coming out of NAFTA, there was an agreement to work together and share regulatory resources among Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. in order to develop a common approach to setting MRLs. That was so successful that it expanded in a way into what we now call OECD

International Trade committee  Yes, I mean in this context.

International Trade committee  Let me give you an example from the Canada-Panama FTA that was just signed. The FTA was not germane to how Panama deals with MRLs, but they have an MRL deferral path that essentially says that their MRL is going to be the Codex MRL, but if Codex doesn't have an MRL in place, it's

International Trade committee  Yes, certainly. There are cases, for example in the EU breach which we referred to, that wouldn't have been entirely protectionist measures. That one was regulators going through the mechanical process of saying, “Here's the number we have in the books, and here is the test resu

International Trade committee  I'll make a few comments and then ask Nick to also comment. In agriculture, we understand the value of options. If for whatever reason we're not able to get what we would like to get out of TPP, or if it turns out that Colombia, which is not a member of TPP, becomes an increasi

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman and committee members, thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee today. As you know, Pulse Canada is a national industry association funded by the farmers who grow peas, lentils, beans, and chickpeas across Canada, as well as by the processing and exp