International Trade committee  I'm having a hard time thinking of an instance where investor-state dispute resolution would apply, but maybe some of my colleagues....

International Trade committee  We don't have a study like that. One of the reasons is that we see the opportunity as being the potential for alignment of trade rules and SPS rules. If it were just the tariff issue, I think we would be able to put together the economics, but for us the bigger gain is alignment

International Trade committee  I can say that we would love to see future free trade agreements with standard language that compels parties to come together to align these standards. No free trade agreement that we've ever seen contains language like that. That could be something to build on in the future. Tha

International Trade committee  Less than 10%.

International Trade committee  Yes, certainly I see the potential for that, and I think that using the scientific committees created under the TPP is the ideal forum. I would add a comment that we're getting by on this issue today—

International Trade committee  It's patchwork, but in the future it's going to be damage control. We're going to add sort of a 10-power microscope on to our ability to detect today's trace levels, but at a much more sensitive level, beyond anything that's biologically significant, and that's going to collide w

International Trade committee  Mr. Chairman and committee members, I just want to give you a practical trade example of the sort of thing we're talking about here. A few years ago, as many of you will know, the pulse industry experienced a fairly high-profile non-compliance on MRLs. The issue was that Canadia

International Trade committee  Ideally, countries around the world would have a single global reference for technology—

International Trade committee  Yes, 100%. An increasing number of countries have their own sort of custom national lists that don't reference Codex. That's what I was referring to with 11 out of the 12 TPP countries. It's a bit astonishing that countries that would have enough in common to get together to neg