The U.S. is the biggest exporter of wheat in the world, but, when you compare apples to apples, that is, U.S. production with the high protein, good milling quality wheat produced in Western Canada, you will find that the U.S. only has a small area of production that can produce that commodity.

Five per cent of the durum produced in this country is manufactured by Canadians and only 25 per cent of the wheat.

However, it may be an intermediate country, except where, for example, the products are merely transhipped through that country, or the products concerned are not produced in that country, or there is no comparable price for them in that country.

An invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to certain third countries was opened pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 936/2006 (2).

2. The competent authority shall verify that the quantity of product cited in the application does not exceed that notified to the WTO by an importing country which is a WTO member, or to the Commission by an importing country which is not a WTO member, and that, taking into account other compulsory licences granted elsewhere, the total amount of product authorised to be produced for any importing country does not significantly exceed the amount notified by that country to the WTO, in the case of importing countries which are WTO members, or to the Commission, in the case of ...[+++]importing countries which are not WTO members.

2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, products shall be considered as originating in SAARC when they are obtained in these countries according to the rules of origin provided for in Articles 67 to 97 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, or as originating in the beneficiary countries of the Lomé Convention when they are obtained in those countries according to the rules of origin provided in Protocol 1 to the Fourth ACP-EEC Convention(13).