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The first business to sign a lease at Reading Terminal Market back in 1892 is still whipping up creamy confections with milk from Pennsylvania dairy farmers. Now, instead of just slinging ice cream cones in Center City, Bassetts Ice Cream is being exported across Asia.
That has been the case for the past 15 years, with help from a federal agency that insures against business deal losses on export transactions for American businesses to make international trade less risky. So when federal officials from the U.S. Export-Import Bank visited Philadelphia, they made sure to sample the goods and snag an ice cream cone…