Certainly the outcome of our negotiations will be seen as a precedent in a number of areas.
As I mentioned a little bit earlier, we've had to basically draw a bridge between the NAFTA model of a free trade agreement and the European Union model of a free trade agreement and make those come together.
Some of those are easier than others, but I think we've paved the way for how rules of origin can be negotiated, how investment rules can be negotiated, and for regulatory standards, approaches that could be followed. There is a whole series. Virtually every chapter, since we followed a very similar model to the U.S. up until now, will provide guidance to the U.S. as well.
I don't want to speculate too much on what the U.S. and EU negotiations might go like, but certainly in our negotiations, one of the key EU objectives was government procurement, in particular subnational procurement, so at the provincial level and at the municipal level.
You're quite right in pointing out that in the U.S. it's quite a different situation. The states are far less willing to go along with the federal government in that kind of direction. It's probably inevitable that we will see a less ambitious outcome on government procurement, which will give us a greater preference in the EU market for government procurement contracts.
They'll also have some considerable challenges in some other areas, even on the market access side. Agriculture will be problematic for them, probably even more than it was for us. I think in a whole series of issues they will face significant challenges, but again, for them the stakes will be very high with the two largest economies in the world. We'll have to see how it comes out.
I'll just add one final point. As we negotiated in particular the final stages of the agreement, we made a number of connections or linkages to a potential outcome between the U.S. and the EU, so if the U.S. and the EU get an agreement, that will trigger certain things to happen in our agreement that will provide us with greater benefits. We've done that in various chapters throughout the agreement.