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Where will all the Hyundais go? That's the question many Northwest ports would like to know

An administration proposal to reduce the Customs Service's personnel will be rejected by the Senate

Catastrophic Premiums To Increase, CBO SaysThe House Ways and Means Committee released a Con

Eighteen crewmen apparently died when the small Philippine-flag cargo ship Balsa 24 capsized in a vi

GENERAL NEWSEconomic activity is refocusing to the suburbs as businesses relocate away

The Maritime Administration's latest survey of U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair facilities reported

Canada's Coast Guard wants modification of a four-year-old design for a very large icebreaker intend

Bath Iron Works is likely to shut down its Portland, Maine, shipyard tempo rarily, but will not lay

FMC Adopts Rules On Attorneys' FeesThe Federal Maritime Commission adopted new rules to help

Trade union leaders at Devonport Royal Naval Dockyard threatened Wednesday to call a mass walkout by

The RAND Corp.'s Institute for Civil Justice has released the latest in a continuing series of studi

A coalition of 172 health-care organizations called Monday for allowing Americans to buy Medicaid in

A panel of medical experts rejected mandatory AIDS testing for marriage license applicants and hospi

U.S. Labor Secretary William Brock has asked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to in

Night Hawk Joins Ark. Drilling ProgramNight Hawk Resources Corp. is participating in the dri

Congress has begun looking at the thorny problem of how to notify workers they may be exposed to dan

Gains by pharmaceutical and high technology issues helped the stock market test its recent record hi

Supplies of gasoline and distillate declined, according to the American Petroleum Institute's latest

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

Rohr, Machinists Near Tentative AccordSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Aerospace machinists and Rohr

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

Tiny USX Telecenters Corp. of Sunnyvale says it has quietly settled its $50 million lawsuit against

Besides a good-sized payoff for Rainier Bancorporation shareholders, the company's merger with Secur

Air France has a three-pronged approach to developing cargo traffic - business that accounts for 22

China's Grain Exports Expected to DeclineChina's grain exports will drop to 5.5 million metr

A state senator from Los Angeles is proposing a 15-cent increase in the cigarette tax to pay for hea

Fifteen years after Richard Nixon's electrifying visit, China and the United States remain divided o

The Philippine government will go ahead with debt rescheduling talks next week despite Brazil's deci

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III said the United States reached a tentative understanding with

3rd Wire-Tokyo Expo Set for April 1-4Held for the third time in succession, Wire-Tokyo '87 w

China's Grain Exports Expected to DeclineChina's grain exports will drop to 5.5 million metr

Corporate and personal income taxes are cut and some consumption levies only slightly increased in t

Large-scale modernization is planned for India's state-run railroad system, reputedly the world's se

BankAmerica Loans SAN FRANCISCO - BankAmerica Corp.'s plan to turn an operating profit by th

Indications that Brazil may allow the International Monetary Fund to do some surveillance of its eco

Bored brokers on the floor of the Baltic Exchange had something to talk about Wednesday after the ne

Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., called major pending trade legislation protectionist poison and urged trade

President Reagan may veto the highway funding bill being worked out by congressional conferees becau

It's easy to spot American tourists in Europe. They're the ones wearing the Burberry raincoa

An Evergreen Marine Corp. containership hit and effectively destroyed a $1.3- million container cran