changing hats now, i'm ralph carter -- i'm still ralph carter, managing director of legal trade and internationalrve as the chamber's co chair of their trade task force. very happy to be here today. i hope everyone found the panels as interesting as i did. i want to thank the chamber for organizing this, and for all of you for attending today. it's important that business stay engaged in the wto and express our support for an ambitious multilateral trade agenda. as chris mentioned, the statement by the chamber in europe is doing just that. so we hope today's conference will, as myron said, try and help kind of set -- set some priorities and a pathway forward for 2012, and beyond. today we are especially pleased to be joined by deputy u.s. ambassador to the wto michael punk. everyone has his bio in front of you. but ambassador punk has worked in the field of international trade for two decades. from 1995 to '96. he served as senior policy adviser at ustr, where he worked on issues ranging from agricultural trade to intellectual property detection. from '93 to '95, he served at the white house as d