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Positive Results. Now, with a formal embargo under way, Canadian businessmen are betting that their picture will improve. Selected Canadian export figures for 1960's first half show an upward trend compared to 1959: sheet and strip steel went from $149,000 to $212,000, aircraft engines and parts from $35,000 to $209,000, synthetic rubber and plastics from $17,000 to $255,000, medicines from $158,000 to $315,000.
Last week the Cuban state shipping line announced the immediate start of a freight service with Canada. From Canada's Saguenay Shipping Co., which eliminated its Montreal-Santiago freight service a month ago, came hopeful word: "The whole picture is under review."
There was also word that an "unofficial" Canadian trade mission has been in Cuba for several weeks and has landed orders for auto parts, electrical equipment and other industrial goods reportedly totaling $7,500,000.