International Trade committee  Yes, sure.

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question, Madam Chair. I think it is fair to say that during our negotiations with the United Kingdom, early on it took them some time to resource all of their negotiations, and they have been quite ambitious with their negotiating agenda. I think it's fair

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. I can't speak to how the United Kingdom prioritized its negotiating agenda. It could be the case that they wanted to close some deals which from their perspective were easier than others. The CETA is a complex and very comprehensive agreement; it ta

International Trade committee  We never put forward an expiration date on the agreement, no.

International Trade committee  I think a comprehensive trade agreement, much like we have with the CETA, covers all kinds of areas. It is in the context of the CETA. It is based on the fact that negotiation between Canada and 27, at the time 28, other members of the European Union.... That's why we looked at i

International Trade committee  As I was saying, they are not a carbon copy. There are differences. We are working on some differences that will be material. When the negotiations get concluded, then it will be available for folks to see that while it is transitional in nature, there are areas that will be bila

International Trade committee  So it's not—

International Trade committee  No, go ahead.

International Trade committee  In fact, I signed off on them not that long ago. I believe they will be making their way to the committee very soon. Today is the 20th, and I would hope they would get there by the end of the month. I will verify when they will get to the committee.

International Trade committee  They are on their way.

International Trade committee  Those provisions will continue to apply. In fact, the United Kingdom has already approved them. They were one of the early countries in the European Union to approve the CETA treaty, so they are one of the ones that do that. That was an area, at least in the transitional agreemen

International Trade committee  No. They will not be in effect because it does require that we wait for all of the EU members to ratify the treaty—

International Trade committee  That's correct, yes.

International Trade committee  The transitional agreement is based on the CETA, absolutely. As I mentioned, replicating the CETA was the goal. It was what the U.K. was allowed to do, as they were an EU member at the time when we launched the negotiations. It was very much the case that we would bilateralize

International Trade committee  If we did not get an agreement with the United Kingdom by January 1 of next year, then, yes, all MFN tariffs would apply for Canadian exports into the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom exports into Canada would also have to pay the MFN tariff. Our analysis indicates that about