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Despite a rate of $7.00 paid from the U.S. Gulf to the continent Tuesday, most sources were reluctan

AAEI Midwest Unit Plans Import SeminarThe Midwest unit of the American Association of Export

The European Community's Directive on Product Liability, scheduled to come into force in two years

A Massachusetts legislator next week will propose a bill that would provide guidelines to determine

BASF to Hike Selling PricesOf AcrylatesBASF Chemicals will increase selling prices f

Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell below $15 a barrel Wednesday mainly result

New Hampshire Yankee Corp. says a Massachusetts plan to require full environmental review of emergen

Southeast Rail Shippers Advisory Board, 200th annual meeting, Sept. 10-11. Jacksonville Hilton, Jack

Delta/Western Airline Would Be 4th LargestDelta Air Lines' $860 million acquisition of Weste

Port of Tacoma officials are being asked to seek congressional support for oil and gas exploration o

Japanese government officials disclosed the draft outline of a $22.6 billion package of pump-priming

The U.S. rice industry petitioned the Reagan administration to get Japan to open its rice market to

Mitterrand Visit Nears JAKARTA, Indonesia - Francois Mitterrand, the first French president

Weatherstone Elected to HeadJ.P. MorganDennis Weatherstone was elected president of

Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanadaU.

Stanley Ferguson, editor of The Journal of Commerce from 1962 to 1969, died Wednesday in his sleep.

The Federal Maritime Commission decided to investigate fully an agreement proposed by carriers for s

Mexico Likely to Cut Some Grain ImportsThe U.S. counselor in Mexico City has lowered his est

The U.S.-inspired bid to devise rules for traded services under the General Agreement for Tariffs an

Peru's 1986 fine copper output is projected to total 397,037 metric tons, down from last year's 401

Thirteen North Atlantic port agencies sought Federal Maritime Commission approval to confer on matte

Twenty years ago the federal government began regulating auto safety, and as cars became safer the n

Nine companies, seven of them Japanese, asked to be allowed to bid on state- owned oil when Alaska a

The growing practice by utilities of bulkpower transmission may slow down be cause the costs are too

GENERAL NEWSIndexes of a business study group indicate better U.S. employment, less decline

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

Beleaguered Wah Kwong Shipping & Investment Co. Ltd. hit back at Chase Manhattan Bank, denouncing th

The Department of Transportation wants the Interstate Commerce Commission to reduce significantly th

A $225 million Teleport, touted as the world's first satellite communications center, will become th

The New York State Public Service Commission voted 3 to 2 in favor of adopting a $4.1 billion cost s

The colony's largest landlord, Hongkong Land Co. Ltd., appears to have escaped decisively from its l

Deficit Pushes India Toward CountertradeIndia wants free trade but has to use the bartering

Another aftershock of July's big earthquake shook the desert Tuesday, but was met with indifference

The Teamsters union faces further isolation in the trucking industry if internal politics steers its

Relatives of six passengers killed when an Aeromexico jetliner crashed after an airborne collision a

Lawmakers trying to wrap up the 1987 budget in the next three weeks are willing to try just about an

A positive picture for U.S. employment, less downward pressure on U.S. prices and a mixed growth out

The Canadian Wheat Board announced an emergency plan to ship grain by railfrom western Canad

The 219,387-deadweight-ton tanker Golar Robin left Subic in the Philippines Seot. 9 after repairs we

Two key executives involved in Liberian-flag shipping operations say a sure- fire recipe for disaste