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A contract to ship zinc-lead concentrate from Alaska to British Columbia seems likely to go to an ex

The government is offering special incentives to private British investors to buy British Petroleum

The nation's largest shipping lobby is heartened that the Canadian transportation sectors will be de

Tennessee Valley Authority issued three spot market contracts covering deliveries ofonly 6,500 tons

Industry Questions Drug Ingredient PlanThe Reagan administration is advocating tighter contr

Sept. 18 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Supplies of fruits and vegetables in the Soviet Union are down, and farm workers are running out of

Renewed vigor for Brazilian exports helped generate a record $1.43 billion trade surplus for August

The United States needs all the help it can get in improving its trade imbalance, and the Rev. James

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Demolition to make way for construction of the world's tallest building is under way in Australia.

With conflict over hospital cost containment threatening to scuttle Gov. Michael Dukakis' universal

Key Swiss Road Open After Flood DamageALTDORF, Switzerland - The Gotthard route, Switzerland

Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole's remaining agenda has grown, rather than shrunk, si

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

Newly appointed Philippine Finance Minister Vicente Jayme will stand by his president's credo that a

The U.S. economy grew at a revised seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.5 percent in the second quar

Currency traders hope a Group of Seven meeting this week will provide a clear indication of whether

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

1034.0 (Sept. 18) Previous day - 1038.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

How many West German marks does it take to buy one British pound? How many yen can one purchase for

Ford Motor Co., under fire from Irish-American lobbyists for alleged bias against Roman Catholics at

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

A growing appetite for vegetables is changing where some crops are produced in the United States and

Few seats go empty at Worlds of Wonder Inc.'s Fremont headquarters. But these days, followin

More than 700 executives, most paying $850 for the privilege, learned that the foreigners are coming

Commissioner Thomas C. Jorling announced a major reorganization of New York's Department of Environm

IC Industries Unveils Plan for Ill. RailroadCHICAGO - IC Industries has approved a plan to s

The Senate at the weekend refused to restrict President Reagan's Persian Gulf policy as it fashioned

Standard & Poor's affirmed the triple-A ratings of five multilateral lending institutions. T

Treasury to Monitor Libya's US AssetsIn an attempt to monitor compliance with a U.S. freeze

The Asian Development Bank said it made the Philippines and Indonesia eligible for limited amounts o

UtiliCorp United Inc., a rapidly growing Kansas City-based utility group, is looking for more acquis

Top Stories: California is pushing for greater export markets for its agricultural products.

The world's major coffee producers and consumers, whose brewing dispute over quotas have stymied eff

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said that the world agricultural commodity market continu

NJ Governor Talks Trade With ChineseBEIJING, China - N.J. Gov. Thomas H. Kean has arrived in

Electronics Leads Scottish ExportsNEWTON, Mass. - A major U.S. electronics contract manufact