International Trade committee  Yes. We require our distributors to manage the tariffs and import duties related to our products, so I would say it's a non-tariff barrier. Much like what is happening according to my limited knowledge on the markup on pork, they're marking up our product to cover all the tariffs

International Trade committee  Predominantly in Canada. I haven't gone as far as Japan. When your Canadian counterparts can't help you and can't find someone on the other side of the world who can help you, we tend to go backwards at that point to the chemists and to the raw material suppliers to try to deciph

International Trade committee  I don't think we're going to find a harmonization of comparable standards. That is a good phrase which I might have to write down for later. I don't think that the major North American corporations that manufacture and distribute in these markets are ever going to feel that the J

International Trade committee  In terms of starting to build the relationship with Japan, we need resources that are closer than a Canadian consulate on the other side of the world. Our suppliers, our manufacturers, our local regulatory people, our Japanese representatives, and our government representatives h

International Trade committee  We're going to start from the perspective of being a younger company that's gone through the last few years beginning our exporting into the Japanese market. What we've learned primarily is that the standards we meet and often exceed here in the Canadian and U.S. markets don't re