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Taiwan's exporters should be able to retain most of their markets in the United States as long as th

China's famed silk industry is facing a shortage of silkworm cocoons that has forced some factories

Thrall Car Manufacturing Co. hopes to revolutionize the transport of automobiles with its new system

While Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini may promise paradise to Iranian soldiers who fall in battle, the r

West Germany's Daimler-Benz AG has recalled about 65,000 of its cars sold in the United States becau

Tonight is Presidential Softball Night in Des Moines, Iowa, a time for summer play among the Democra

The U.S. dollar continued to push higher against major foreign currencies Monday, but trading was ex

The Mexican stock market, known as La Bolsa Mexicana, has surged to new highs, bringing its overall

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

The American Association of Retired Persons is heavily lobbying all members of the House in anticipa

Detroit Edison's Fermi 2 nuclear plant won't begin commercial operation by Sept. 1 as planned, becau

Toshiba's illegal sale of banned machinery to the Soviet Union has underscored complaints that Japan

Purolator Courier Corp. has inked a two-year pact with Cylix Communications Corp., allowing the data

Restructuring Will Cut 600 Union Pacific JobsOMAHA, Neb. - Union Pacific Railroad said a res

Trailer Train Co. will add 2,000 double-stack well cars to its fleet and 200 spine" cars to meet the

Mexico said its decision to increase its levels of oil exports to 1.36 million barrels a day is only

A ranking parliamentary official denied Monday that the government hoped to ship nuclear reactor was

It's ironic. A few years ago the American public started buying Japanese imports in record n

The Securities Industries Association will establish an "international district" in London in the fa

ABOARD THE SOSI INSPECTOR - Divers searching a 1909 shipwreck have come up with trappings of the man

The port of Baltimore got good news late last week when six more shipping companies agreed to begin

A pioneering nuclear expert at the weekend offered Congress what he called a ''neat way" out of the

A move this month to change the name of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi's coal unit from Agip Carbone to

Fed Grants Sumitomo Bank Holding StatusWASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve Board approved an ap

For most consumers, the breakup of the Bell system has resulted in sharply higher bills for local te

British-manufactured robotic vehicles that are designed for materials handling, are said to be the f

Senate Trade Bill Vote Expected on TuesdayThe final Senate vote on its version of the omnibu

The maritime industry is citing 14 heroic Coast Guardsmen who rescued the crew of a Soviet cargo shi

The Kuwaiti tankers that will carry the Stars and Stripes through the Persian Gulf past Iranian guns

The Maritime Administration and its subsidy board will allow Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. to broaden tw

The less experience the better, insurance companies are telling their employee benefits attorneys.

Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. named its next president, but the board extended the active employmen

Florida's antitrust chief says the state's attorney general is "looking into" the possibility that a

EC Refuses to Yield In US Meat DisputesThe European Community has no intention of giving way

The Malaysian government has decided to increase its oil production by 8,000 barrels a day to a tota

Is it possible for coal to be trucked from Virginia to Florida at a lower cost than rail transporta

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

AVIATION The Transportation Department put airlines on notice that stronger enforcement of p

A consortium of six Japanese companies and a U.S. company jointly submitted a proposal to help build

A company and a man - Sea-Land Corp. and Shannon J. Wall, president of the National Maritime Union o