Jamieson Greer

Take India, for example, who's an important partner and a strategic partner in a lot of ways.

We started negotiating with them early in the year, and we're still negotiating with them to try and find a good landing zone.

During that time, we have other trade partners who have come in

started, proceeded with, and concluded trade negotiations with us, etc.

The reality is somebody like Europe, and frankly some jurisdictions that want to emulate them, they might have relatively low tariffs compared to the rest of the world, but they have non-tariff barriers, regulations that exclude American agriculture, which is one of our major exports, and regulations that exclude our industrial exports.

And so you get into this.

And this is why we have giant imbalances.

It's not because Europe is really competitive.

We know they're not.

It's because they have a lot of these rules that prevent U.S.

goods and services from going into the continent.

So first of all, any country in the world who exports steel and aluminum to the United States wants to have a modification to that regime because the United States for many years has been the consumer of last resort.

And this is why the president put steel and aluminum tariffs on in the first administration.

The Biden administration kept them and the president has tightened them further in his second administration.

Of course, the Mexicans are asking for this.

We have found the Mexicans to be quite constructive in some of our recent discussions and looking to change some of their laws and regulations related to longstanding U.S.

concerns.

So have the Mexicans asked about this?

Yes.

You know, I won't give any further detail beyond that, but it's certainly something that they would like to see.