Implementation of trade plans initiated here last May, when Israel’s Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion paid an official visit to Canada, got under way here today, when a 10-man Israel trade delegation arrived in this Canadian capital to start a round of specific negotiations with Canadian industrialists and exporters. The Israel mission is headed by J. Schickler, director of the foreign trade division in the Israeli Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
The Ministry of Trade announced here today that, on its part, Canada will send a trade mission to Israel next spring, and plans to follow through with the appointment of a permanent Canadian Trade Commissioner, with headquarters in Tel Aviv. Canadian exports to Israel in 1960, it was announced, totaled a value of $6,000,000, of which wheat exports were valued at $2,400,000, Israel’s exports to Canada reached a value of $2,400,000.
The plans for increased Canadian-Israeli trade were launched last spring by Mr. Ben-Gurion, who was accompanied on his visit here by Pinhas Sapir, Israel’s Minister of Commerce and Industry. Yaacov Herzog, Israel’s Ambassador here, has been in consultation with Canadian trade authorities since spring to advance implementation of those plans.
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