International Trade committee  We are as much as we can. A lot of our customers are resistant to submitting financial statements to EDC, but we've had a little bit of success there working with the EDC representative who works out of the Canadian embassy in Moscow. He covers the region of Kazakhstan. They are

International Trade committee  I would also add, even prior to the recent changes that have happened between Russia and Ukraine, Ukraine has always been a more difficult market to enter in terms of their customs requirements. The certification they require to clear goods through customs has always been quite a

International Trade committee  That happened almost by accident. We were originally approached by a Russian company that wanted to buy farm equipment. At the time my parents were running a local John Deere dealership. Eventually we split it apart, but we started by exporting to Russia, and the farm in Russia s

International Trade committee  Not in Canada. For all the manufacturers' equipment that we sell, the manufacturer takes the responsibility to get their equipment registered. We do face it in export markets, but we're primarily in one export market, so we don't have a huge problem with that either at this poin

International Trade committee  No. In the export market, that falls to our responsibility, so our office in Kazakhstan generally deals with those issues.