starting box [ starting gate stall ]

load the horses into the starting boxes

starting gate door controls

spring open the starting gate

From the outset, a key premise of the ENP was that economic integration should go beyond free trade in goods and services to also include “behind the border” issues: addressing non-tariff barriers and progressively achieving comprehensive convergence in trade and regulatory areas (such as technical norms and standards, sanitary and phytosanitary rules, competition policy, enterprise competitiveness, innovation and industrial policy, research cooperation, intellectual property rights, trade facilitation customs measures and administrative capacity in the area of rules of origin, good governance in the tax area, company law, public procure ...[+++]ment and financial services).

Consisting of those parts of the Province of Saskatchewan and the City of Saskatoon described as follows: commencing at the northwest corner of the Rural Municipality of Barrier Valley No. 397; thence generally southerly along the westerly limit of the rural municipalities of Barrier Valley No. 397, Ponass Lake No. 367 and Lakeview No. 337 to the south boundary of Tp 34; thence west along the south boundary of Tp 34 to the west boundary of R 21 W 2; thence north along the west boundary of R 21 W 2 to the south boundary of Tp 37; thence west along the south boundary of Tp 37 to the easterly li ...[+++]mit of the City of Saskatoon; thence southwesterly and southeasterly along said limit to 8th Street East; thence westerly along said street, 8th Street West and its production to the South Saskatchewan River; thence generally northeasterly along said river to the southwesterly corner of the Rural Municipality of Birch Hills No. 460; thence easterly and northerly along the southerly and easterly limits of said rural municipality to the northwesterly corner of the Rural Municipality of Invergordon No. 430; thence easterly and southerly along the northerly and easterly limits of said rural municipality to the north boundary of Tp 42; thence east along the north boundary of Tp 42 to the point of commencement.

There is an argument reflected in that study that suggests the greater concern for linguistic barriers may be at the lower levels, the earlier levels where athletes are moving through the system, where the linguistic barriers make a bigger difference.

That's definitely at play here: how fast are they giving access to everyone, and how everybody's coming in. In terms of access from Latin America into North America, because North America has much lower barriers to begin with, other than non-trade barriers and anti-dumping suits and countervailing and so on, they seem to have a lot less to gain.