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Japan has made progress in removing barriers to telecommunications trade and its financial markets b

The textile industry has replaced oil as China's top foreign currency earner, with exports reaching

Four men who did not contest a charge that they tried to illegally export high-technology military e

Total foreign exchange reserves stood at US$10.47 billion at the end of June, according to figures f

China is promising foreign investors that the government will do something about the high costs, red

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement said it will charge a currency adjustment factor of 21 per

The nation's best soybean growers face a growing challenge from booming oilseed production around th

Eight seamen can look homeward again, now that the abandoned freighter on which they were stranded f

GENERAL NEWS Congress is likely to give final approval to the tax reform bill this week, des

Friday September 19, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanadaU.

The experimental drug AZT appears to extend the lives of some AIDS patients and will become the firs

The dispute over how to launch a new round of multilateral trade talks covering both goods and servi

Management in the port of New York and New Jersey - the nation's most expensive port - is trying to

Delegates from over 30 nations may agree this week to replenish the World Bank's International Devel

The following are the results of Friday's St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session for barge freigh

Compania Trasatlantica Espanola and Italia di Navigazione announced their short- and long-term progr

The West Berlin-based German Institute for Economic Research-DIW urged the Bonn government to stimul

Evergreen Marine Corp. agreed to take a 30 percent stake in the Malaysian transportation company Kon

Architects, Engineers Set Annual MeetingNEW YORK- The 94th annual meeting of The Society of

Utilities' overall fuel bills are substantially less because they purchased more spot coal in 1986 t

The growth in European demand for thermal coal for the period from 1985-2005 is forecast to outstrip

Money-making hospital chains are more efficient than their non-profit counterparts, which are proppe

Safmarine Names Finlay,WhiteheadMichael J. Finlay was named chairman and Dennis R. W

Americans' personal incomes climbed 0.4 percent in August, the best gain since April, while their sp

Magellan Petroleum Corp. said the 922-mile main trunk of the natural gas pipeline from the Australia

Uncle Sam is trying to prove to truckers that their daddies were wrong when they said front brakes w

The way to sell road-railer service is to "make the customer feel he's using a truck line," a Norfol

Union Pacific Corp.'s billion-dollar buy-out of Overnite Transportation Co. fits neatly with the rai

The Nakasone government should purchase American rice and then ship it directly to developing count

American President Lines Ltd. apparently raised a troubling issue for the Mari time Administration w

Union Pacific Ratings Placed on CreditWatchStandard & Poor's Corp. said Union Pacific Corp.'

The compromise tax-overhaul plan that the House will vote on next week is laced with hundreds of spe

West Germans Seek To Protect Their BeerSAARBRUECKEN, West Germany - If the Common Market for

Former BofA Director Prefers Small CompanyCharles Schwab says he quit Bank of America's boar

The Bank of Boston is holding talks on purchase of a government-run bank in the Philippines under th

The U.S. dairy production outlook for 1987 is "uncertain" despite a continuing production decrease a

The following table lists the spot coal contracts signed between the Tennessee Valley Authority and

The farm export picture, gloomy after three straight months of deficits, has at least one bright spo

Senate majority leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., said he was awaiting agreement among major commodity gro

Legislation imposing a settlement in the bitter dispute between rail labor and the Maine Central and