Soviets Will Sell More Chemicals to France
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Five-year trade pact calls for Soviets to buy chemical equipment
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France's new trade pact with the Soviet Union doesn't appear to con tain any bombshells. An important agreement economically, the deal ap parently doesn't carry any political overtones. The main differences be tween the new accord and those that have come before are that the new pact calls for more products and a greater monetary value, and will run for a longer time (five years, starting Jan. 1, 1965). The total value of the new agree ment can't be estimated precisely since there is a miscellaneous category of goods which will be negotiated each year. Reports in the French press es timate the total value at between $140 million and $200 million a year. Le Monde, one of France's most impor tant newspapers, says French exports under the accord will average about $170 million a year, or 2.4% of France's total exports. Imports will average about $150 million a year or less than 2% of France's total im ports, according to Le Monde. What's Included. Under the pre vious French-Soviet trade pact, which ran for two years (1963 and 1964), the Soviets sold to France about $280,000 worth of chemical products a year. Under the new pact, the U.S.S.R. will sell increasingly larger amounts of chemicals each year: $320,000 worth of chemicals in 1965, $540,000 in 1966, $870,000 in 1967, $1 million in 1968, and $1.4 million in 1969. Products include paraffin, petro leum wax, hydrogen peroxide, potas sium ferrocyanide, sodium nitrite, diphenyl amine, pyridine, antimony trioxide, anthracene, and the like. The agreement also calls for France to purchase from the Soviets equipment (cutting and forging machines, auto mobiles, bulldozers, and tractors, for example) as well as such products as coal, crude oil, crude and refined met als, and foodstuffs. The French will sell about $700 million worth of equipment to the So viets over the five-year period. In cluded in the list is equipment for the chemical and petrochemical industries; equipment for making fertilizers, in secticides, herbicides, plastics, color
ants, intermediates for colorants, and glass fibers; and equipment for proc essing synthetic rubber. In addition, the French will supply various prod ucts such as laminated steel, optical quartz, synthetic fiber, essential oils, and photographic materials. France's equipment sales are the area of greatest potential interest. Many Europeans are waiting to see just what credit terms the French will offer the Soviets. The terms haven't been hammered out yet.
Air Products Links Up With Belgian Company Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, Pa., is planning to build its first plant in the European Economic Community. The company has linked up with the Belgian industrial giant, Société Générale de Belgique, to make industrial gases at Zelzaete, near Ghent. The name of the new joint company is Air Products, S.A.N.V. The Zelzaete plant will have an annual capacity of 200,000 tons of industrial gases—oxygen, nitrogen, and argon. Cost of the plant will be $7 million and production should start late next year. In addition, Air Products, S.A.-N.V. will make gas-using equipment and will sell cryogenic process plants based on Air Products and Chemicals' design. Air Products will set up redistribution depots in major industrial centers throughout Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The company will market a full range of industrial gases including acetylene. The tie-in with Société Générale de Belgique is a logical one. The Belgian company's interests include coal mining, metallurgy, and chemicals. The Zelzaete unit will be only a short distance away from Ste. Générale de Belgique's Sidmar steel plant, which is currently being expanded. Part of the new gas plant's output will be fed directly to the steel plant by pipeline. Since Air Products and Chemicals first appeared on the European scene six years ago, its expansion has been impressive. Production facilities at present are confined to the United Kingdom, where the company now has plants at seven locations. Current expansion plans will raise the company's capacity for industrial gases in the U.K. to about 426,000 tons annually in 1965 (C&EN, Sept. 28, page 2 6 ) . NOV. 16, 1964 C & E N
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