The Canadian Export Development Corp., sponsored by the Canadian government, will loan up to $100 million to Israel to finance the sales of Canadian capital goods and services to this country, it was announced here several days ago. The announcement followed talks between Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir and Jean-Luc Pepin, Canada’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce. Their week-long talks reportedly included abolition of tariff barriers between the two countries, preferential trade agreements, investment guarantees and possible scientific cooperation between Israel and Canada,
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