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EC Plans Crackdown On Recording PiratesBRUSSELS, Belgium - The 12-nation European Community

The Medicare program should be expanded to provide insurance against catastrophic illness, which can

A group of U.S. farm leaders has returned from a week of agricultural trade talks in Europe with off

Akzo Increases Prices For Ketone PeroxidesCHICAGO Akzo Chemie America, Noury Chemicals is

Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy declared upon leaving Baghdad Monday that Washington wil

Cecil W. Drinkward, new president of the port of Portland, has suggested the port should look into l

The United Kingdom has asked the European Commission to investigate the amount of state aid given to

An Iranian gunboat attacked an Indian tanker sailing for Kuwait on Monday, the fourth raid on ships

There will be a sluggish start to the 1987 Alaska cruise season. The first sailing of the ye

An increase in rates at the port of New Orleans could bounce rubber imports to other Gulf ports unle

Citibank to Purchase Hong Kong Card UnitHONG KONG - Citibank will buy Bank of America's Visa

A longshoreman brings the first of a new type of South Korean-built cars down a ship's ramp at the p

The U.S. dollar edged cautiously higher Monday after holding within a narrow trading range in quiet

Australia's largest ship, owned by Australia's largest company, has been a success story during its

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

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

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

Reichhold Raises Price Of Waferboard ResinsMISSISSAUGA, Ontario - Reichhold Ltd., a subsidia

Mon., May, 11, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

California Bill to Boost Highway Funds KilledLegislation to make it possible to shift up to

Robert Snedeker thought it was a joke when he read the telex. The telex said that Mr. Snedek

Shipping industry trade groups have shrunk just as the industry has in recent years. But staff worke

Todd Shipyards has no intention of closing its strike-idled yard in San Francisco, but must cut wage

Transport Route Canada Inc. is set to make its first serious inroads into the U.S. trucking market.

Canada is close to choosing British- or French-designed nuclear-powered submarines to modernize its

The Department of Transportation announced stepped-up enforcement program at U.S. ports to crack dow

Baxter Travenol Laboratories Inc. will acquire Caremark Inc. for around $528 million, the companies

They used to be comrades in arms, giants in their respective industries. Now they're digging foxhole

My son Eric of late has been talking about a career as an attorney-agent for sports stars. T

A controversial proposal that would mandate auto-insurance reductions and limit the ability of accid

Down Home America, a new retail concept - a modern day general store showcasing the best of all-Amer

Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. of Fort Washington, Pa., the baby-food producer accused of selling million

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. already has charged its ratepayers more than $23 million over the past tw

More than $1 billion worth of goods - including Girl Scout cookies and baby food - had to be destroy

Average retail gasoline prices crept up a quarter of a cent last week to 96.56 cents a gallon, sugge

Union Territory Rights Go to PSC of ColoradoSettlement of a two-year dispute over territoria

American Electric Power Services Corp. said it bought 630,000 tons of coal on the spot market for Ke

A licensing agreement covering the sales and production of Pfizer Inc.'s copper-nickel-tin spinodal

Ronald Sandmeyer supports President Reagan but admits his 35-year-old specialty steel company "did a