Several Scandinavian companies in their business dealings with the Arabs, have refused to comply with the Arab boycott of Israel. The Danish F.L. Smith Company, supplier of the machinery for the cement factories in Haifa and Ramie, recently refused to sign part of a contract it made with Iraq. The unsigned paragraph stipulated that the company should have no commercial dealings with Israel. The $100 million contract will go into effect without the boycott paragraph. It was reported that two unnamed Norwegian companies have done likewise.
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