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Trade and other receivables
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Subclassifications of assets, liabilities and equities [abstract]  
Trade and other receivables
Trade and other receivables:
 
As at
Dec 31
2019

Dec 31
2018

Trade
$
343,959

$
412,662

Egypt insurance recovery(a)
50,000


Value-added and other tax receivables
44,408

37,823

Egypt gas contract recoveries

6,227

Other
50,354

57,856

 
$
488,721

$
514,568


a) Egypt insurance recovery:
We experienced an outage at the Egypt plant from April to August 2019. We have recorded a $50 million ($25 million our share) insurance recovery which partially offsets repair costs charged to earnings and lost margins incurred in the second and third quarters of 2019. At December 31, 2019, the insurance recovery is included in Trade and other receivables as final settlement has not been received.