usa's front page, many in the usc mexico as an oasis for health care, medical tourism south of the border arrives for easy access and low cost. guest: that is true. the caller made an important point, people travel regularly to mexico for cosmetic surgery, sometimes experiment treatments, to purchase drugs at lower costs. they are generally the same drugs produced by the same companies. there is movement. there are also, at times, -- what we are talking now, individuals, any of us including the caller driving across the border, walking across the border as he suggests himself. there have been efforts to have more organized medical tourism for that reason, because the costs are lower. you can often find doctors in mexico trained in the united states who have exactly the same knowledge and skill. host: is this something the mexican government is encouraging? have these procedures here? are there tax incentives, are they investing in medical facility south of the border to encourage americans to spend their health care dollars here? guest: in the past administrations and mexico, there was a

usa's front page, many in the usc mexico as an oasis for health care, medical tourism south of the borderaccess and low cost. guest: that is true. the caller made an important point, people travel regularly to mexico for cosmetic surgery, sometimes experiment treatments, to purchase drugs at lower costs. they are generally the same drugs produced by the same companies. there is movement. there are also, at times, -- what we are talking now, individuals, any of us including the caller driving across the border, walking across the border as he suggests himself. there have been efforts to have more organized medical tourism for that reason, because the costs are lower. you can often find doctors in mexico trained in the united states who have exactly the same knowledge and skill. host: is this something the mexican government is encouraging? have these procedures here? are there tax incentives, are they investing in medical facility south of the border to encourage americans to spend their health care dollars here? guest: in the past administrations and mexico, there was a more active effort

mexico, for example, not to restrict access to u.s. products. can you tell us how you and your colleagues at usc are building upon those efforts and update us on what the strategies are? what more do you think we need to do in this area? thank you senator smith. i have yet to see feta on a map. i think, at times, these g.i.s are, also, clearly to restrict our trade. which is a large concern to, in particular, dairy can do sirs and broader. many people feel the impacts. we have a multi pronged approach to address this. working with countries who are either engaging in negotiations with the eu and or have concluded negotiations with the eu to articulate our concerns. to make sure they understand the market access rights that we currently have and how that could be impactful there. i think we are also engaging broadly with our trading partners to ensure again that this doesn't become a new trade barrier for our exports. we are also engaging in multi lateral forms about this issue the wtvo the asia pacific economic co-operative forum then there is a world intellectual property organization, as well.