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The U.S. maritime industry is headed for a clash at international trade talks in Switzerland, with f

A decision on Soviet access to the multilateral Multi-Fibre Arrangement is premature at this time, a

U.S. exporters and bankers rated the U.S. Export-Import Bank as less competitive last year than expo

Employees of Smith's Transfer Corp. filed a class action lawsuit against the struggling truck line,

North Carolina has abandoned plans for an investment office in Japan because the legislature did not

The United States, a giant producer of wheat, corn and sundry other crops, will go at least another

The value of U.S. farm exports is expected to total $28 billion this fiscal year, up 4.6 percent fro

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Turkey and Malaysia Discuss Air AgreementKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Turkish officials held tal

General Railway Signal Co. has asked the Federal Trade Commission to relax the terms of a 1964 conse

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BREAKING INTO A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD can be tough, especially when you know the neighbors might not b

The man expected to take over the reins of the state's top business lobbying group said Friday the o

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry said it will computerize its system for screening h

Oslo Investa, the Norwegian investment firm, has purchased the 357,000- deadweig ht-ton Swedish tank

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

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

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

Fri., Aug. 28, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

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There were no high-five handclasps, but Massachusetts Port Authority staffers chortled sagely as Sen

Britain's newest international airline, Highland Express, is making inroads into the trans-Atlantic

The recent air crash in Detroit, a spate of near-disasters and a soaring number of passenger complai

Recently revived Orient Overseas Container Line is spending a cool US$11 million on 500 refrigerated

NJ Ceases Collection Of Controversial TaxNew Jersey stopped collecting a controversial heavy

The principal trading arm of entrepreneur Li K-shing's empire, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. reported after

Armour Food Appoints J. Miller Pres./CEOOMAHA, Neb. - John R. Miller was named president and

The central banks of West Germany, France and Switzerland intervened concertedly and repeatedly in t

A proposed rule by the Department of Transportation that would require any shipper of hazardous mate

West German trade with communist countries declined sharply during the first six months of 1987, des

Shipping in the South American trade is subject to a tangle of restrictions and national-flag regula

When the Massachusetts insurance commissioner last Monday banned sex discrimination in the sale of i

New Service Rates Insurance CompaniesStandard & Poor's launches a new service this week to s

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

S. Korean Investment Rises 56 percent OverseasSEOUL, South Korea - South Korean businesses i

Net profit of Swire Pacific Ltd., the diversified trading, property and aviation company, jumped 79

The official red ink stain at the port of New Orleans is smaller than anticipated for fiscal 1987: $

A surprise inspection of tour buses arriving in this seaside resort found seven in violation of safe

As attacks on merchant shipping in the Persian Gulf escalated last year, ship losses as a result of