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1947: The Birth of GATT On Oct. 30, 1947, 23 nations signed the General Agreement on Tariffs

Another freight payments service is undergoing a major transformation, with Cass Information Systems

Arthur Dunkel, GATT's director general since 1980, is a mild-mannered chain- smoking Swiss with stro

AVIATION Today's final ruling on the proposed USAir/Piedmont airlines merger will set the to

Students leaving the work force to return to school helped push New York state's unemployment rate u

John T. Newton was named chairman of Kentucky Utilities Co., an electric utility, succeeding W.B. Be

Four of the nation's top economists surprised the House Banking Committee Thursday by agreeing on th

Legislation Proposed To Cut Discount RateSen. John Heinz, R-Pa., proposed legislation Thursd

Sophisticated application of hedging techniques is likely to minimize the impact of the dollar's slu

Port directors like to think of themselves as hard-headed businessmen, but W. Don Welch says it's mo

Insurers of stockbrokers are keeping their mouths closed and their umbrellas up as they await the fa

Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., flatly predicted Thursday that there will not be a trade bill until 1988

Julio Lacarte-Muro remembers with amusement the day in 1946 when his boss at the United Nations came

The Cameroon Development Corp. and Del Monte Tropical Fruit Co. signed an agreement to develop 3,000

One shipping line may describe a product as an engine part. Another may call it a compressor part.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed several new water filtration standards that, with o

The development of new drugs - especially quinolones, panems, carbapenems, and monobactams - will pr

Scientists are isolating natural bacteria and inventing microbes that can gobble toxic wastes, but t

After a four-year, $11 million investigation, a team of geneticists at a Massachusetts biotech compa

Food inspection standards must be raised to combat 4 million salmonella poisoning cases a year and p

Rorer Group Gets Back in the BlackFORT WASHINGTON, Pa. - Rorer Group Inc. announced that thi

Blue chip chemical stocks were hurt in last week's market nose dive much more than pharmaceutical st

AECI to Construct Plant in S. AfricaSASOLBURG, South Africa - AECI Ltd. has announced plans

Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc. had a 10.4 percent increase in retail electricity sales in the thi

Six companies from Canada and the United States have responded to a provincial government call for p

A consortium led by an Australian company has won a $1.4 billion contract to build a coal-fired powe

Kaiser Steel Corp. said its board approved the sale of the New Mexico coal properties and reserves h

Utility to Be Unit Of Holding CompanyPLAINFIELD, Ind. - The Public Service Indiana board app

The Federal Railroad Administration and industry spokesmen have challenged a report by a private gro

Management to Buy Youngstown FacilityThe Lamson & Sessions Co. said a letter of intent has b

The railroad industry's unions, fresh from what may turn out to be a major victory in a federal appe

With rail freight traffic running well above earlier forecasts, many railroad industry officials and

A Kuwaiti oil tanker flying a U.S. flag moored at Yarimca Harbor near this Marmara Sea coastal city

Rhetoric was heating up and battle lines were being drawn here Wednesday on the eve of what is sure

A new Mitsui O.S.K. Lines feeder service in Southeast Asia will reduce transit times by as much as f

More US Minesweepers Arrive in Persian GulfTwo minesweepers from Puget Sound have arrived in

Laughter comes easily to Yann-Pierre Remond, so much so the commercial director of the Marseilles-Fo

Trucking industry manufacturers and suppliers endorsed a new educational program aimed at relieving

A ferryboat captain faces a U.S. Coast Guard hearing to determine whether he was negligent in the ne

Iraq said Wednesday its warplanes raided three tankers off Iran and industrial targets on the mainla