International Trade committee  I can answer with respect to the trade remedy system, but I think it ends up being a broader question. With respect to anti-dumping investigations per se, there is no allowance to take those kinds of environmental considerations into play. Part of that is because we're following

International Trade committee  Processing door handles?

International Trade committee  Yes. I think that goes back a little to your colleague’s question, about how people get around customs tariffs. I am not familiar with the example you used, but it does happen that products undergo minimal processing in some countries so that they can come here without customs d

International Trade committee  Well, this is what I was talking about. The things that we were consulting on would all be legislative changes. We consulted on eight different proposals. Three of them were related to enforcement-type issues. There were another three that were related to how the margin of dump

International Trade committee  So you are asking whether the dumping—

International Trade committee  The primary steel producers will be most affected. A number of measures are in place in terms of primary products, but, more and more, dumping is beginning to affect products at secondary processing. People are telling us that it is becoming a problem at that level too.

International Trade committee  Are you asking where it is used?

International Trade committee  It is used in construction, in the automotive industry.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  They are generally primary products, like flat-rolled steel sheets, steel strips, as we call them. These are primary products that are then transformed into other products. That is what happens most of the time. We have measures in place for those products. They come from a numbe

International Trade committee  We are looking at that. This was an issue that was raised by a couple of unions in the context of consultations that we held recently on our trade remedy system. We've had a follow-up meeting with the unions to discuss it further, to better understand what their interests are, an

International Trade committee  Because there's a potential legislative change required to get that through, there would have to be a policy decision. Then a legislative change would likely be needed in order to bring that into effect. Budget 2017 might be a vehicle for that, but it is something we're still th

International Trade committee  Okay.

International Trade committee  We've already taken two measures in the previous budget. The government reaffirmed its commitment to having a strong and effective trade remedy system. In the budget implementation act, there were two measures that were put in place. Following the consultations that were held thi

International Trade committee  I can walk through a bit about the investigation process. Essentially, there are two agencies responsible for conducting trade remedy investigations. Canada Border Services Agency is responsible for initiating a case at the beginning and then looking into whether dumping and su