Increasing purchases of Palestine products by countries the world over are recorded in the current issue of the magazine Palestine and the Middle East.
Egypt has ordered a wide range of goods produced here, including carbon paper, fountain pens, baby carriages, pharmaceutical products and ladies garments. Syria has placed many orders to fill her own needs and for French troops stationed there. Turkey has also displayed interest in Palestine products.
Palestine goods are also attracting interest in New Zealand, whose Government is the first to indicate readiness to accord the some tariff preference to the Holy Land as to other British countries. India, Singapore and Hong Kong are also receiving shipments from Palestine. Honey is finding a market in Kenya, while other East African territories, including Tanganyika and Uganda have ordered Palestine produce. South Africa has been a buyer for some time past, but latterly some 900 new orders have been received by local factories from a large department store there.
Experimental consignments have been shipped to the United States. They include some 20 products, including ceramics, knitwear, woodwork, filigree, handwoven linen and toy animals. One of the largest buying organizations in America is handling the consignments
The magazine suggests appointment of an “economic ambassador” to the United States, which today is the center of 65 per cent of Jewry still living under democratic conditions and therefore more free to cooperate in the reconstruction of the Jewish National Home.
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