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Japan is not as difficult a market to break into as U.S. companies believe - U.S. exporters just don

The American Embassy in London has identified 16 market sectors in Britain that offer the best oppor

The answer is universal and disappointing when questions are raised about U.S. efforts to sell more

The five principal members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations all run trade surpluses wit

There is a growing concern among foreign diplomats here that the stubborn U.S. trade deficit will fo

Foreign nations could and should do more to help the U.S. trade and payments deficits, U.S. official

U.S. Truck Lines Inc. would be the centerpiece of a network of mid-sized motor carriers under a prop

A Mack official said that maximum production capacity of the company's new automated plant in Winnsb

The 1987-88 American Package Express Carriers Association service directory is now available. APECA

UPS Teamsters Ratify ContractTeamsters employed by United Parcel Service Inc. ratified a new

The Federal Maritime Commission has disclosed that three foreign-flag cruise lines agreed to pay pen

Freymiller Trucking Inc., a Bakersfield, Calif.-based long-haul carrier, feels the market for temper

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In what's believed to be the first such deal of its kind, a foreign company has been invited to take

Three investors have filed an treble-damage antitrust suit against Stolt Tankers and Terminals over

Electric Boat shipyard has hired a Philadelphia company to remove 89 electrical transformers and swi

The current wheat crop in Australia will yield a harvest some 20 percent below last year's.

The people who use and pay for Australian ports should be more vocal in demanding improvements, says

Bad-debt losses by banks and other farm lenders remain high but are declining as farmers cut expense

Father Stefan, striding up the path in his hooded Benedictine cassock, at this moment is between a b

MasterCard International Inc. said it was holding more talks with Cirrus Systems Inc. to buy the nat

Northwest Airlines, the Minneapolis-based carrier whose MD-80 was involved in a fiery crash earlier

The Labor Department granted two major life insurance companies permission to invest both pension fu

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

Lloyd's Searches For Missing GoldST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Lloyd's of London is searching for a

The Republican chairman of the state Senate Insurance Committee says Gov. Mario Cuomo's insurance su

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, credited with opening the door to selling insurance in Eastern Euro

Annual rates charged by insurers who cover 80 percent of New Jersey's motorists will go up by approx

Massachusetts Automobile insurers say they're on the brink of collapse due to what they claim are un

Scientists reported this week that AIDS appears to lie dormant an average of eight years in adults w

The U.S. dollar rebounded Thursday afternoon following four days of declines that drove it to a seve

A new instrument to measure radon levels in buildings, soil and air has been introduced in Sweden by

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

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

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is rethinking the bounds of regulation to accommodate th

After three days of sell orders, foreign exchange dealers here remain bearish on the U.S. dollar, an

Stock Prices Soar To Record HighStock prices rose sharply Thursday, with the Dow Jones avera

Thu., Aug. 20, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Thursday marked six months since Brazil suspended payments on $68 billion worth of debts and could o