A list of goods and services to be supplied by West Germany to Israel under the German-Israel reparations pact, for the year ending March 1953, was published today in the press here. The list contains the following commodities and values:
Pig iron, valued at 350,000 marks; rolling mill products, 11,500,000 marks; foundry products, 6,250,000 marks; drawn and cold rolled iron and steel products, 3,100,000 marks; semi-finished products of non-ferrous metals and alloys thereof, 5,300,000 marks; products of machine manufacturing industry, 17,000,000 marks; products of motor vehicle and bicycle industries, 4,500,000; products of the structural steel industry, 7,000,000 marks; ship building, 2,000,000 marks; products of electro-technical industry, 9,000,000 marks.
Also, fine mechanical and optical instruments, 1,000,000 marks; products of iron, steel, sheet metal and metal, 4,500,000 marks; rubber and asbestos products, 1,800,000 marks; woodworking and affiliated products, 12,100,000 marks; leather and processed leather goods, 1,800,000 marks; stones and earth, 1,350,000 marks; ceramic and glass products, 1,350,000 marks; mineral, oil and mining products, 1,800,000 marks; agricultural products, 3,500,000 marks; services, including transport and freight insurance, 15,000,000 marks; chemical products, 13,000,000 marks; textile products, 1,800,000 marks.
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