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Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, used a hemispheric trade forum here to ca

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The Port of Houston has won local voters' approval to issue $387 million in bonds to start construct

Japan Airlines said it earned $56.3 million in the six months ended Sept. 30, down from $161.7 milli

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Three Russian firms that insured a satellite for $24.4 million will decide on payment after a specia

''Don't look back, something may be gaining on you,'' advised the late baseball pitcher Satchel Paig

The 29 leading industrial nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The trade leads are

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reminding importers that wooden pallets and crates from China

The Mexican government has backed down on threats to tax the U.S. operations of companies that parti

The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

'We're totally at the mercy of the exporter and the steamship line on service contracts.'

This year's efforts by the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements and U.S. Customs t

The Federal Maritime Commission has fined several non-vessel-operating common carriers a total of $8

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *1999 High: 95.2 1999 Low: 86.7 1998

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Thomas E. Payne has ambitious plans for improving the supply chain of the multi-billion dollar appar

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Marsh & McLennan Cos. has sold a minority share of its subsidiary Sedgwick Claims Management Service

Partly in response to requests from business, U.S. Customs says it will develop a more consistent, l

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Nov. 2, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Trade ministers from across the Americas will begin meeting here on Wednesday, hoping to pave the wa

Kitty Hawk Inc.'s earnings more than tripled during the third quarter to $8.1 million, from $2.5 mil

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Reinsurance pricing's recent free-fall appears to have halted but there is no sign of a strong, upwa

Roger Bouchard Insurance Inc., one of the largest independent insurance agencies in Florida, has bec

'I think the inaccurate forecasting and deregulation were equal factors.'

U.S. Customs is reinforcing its tougher, no-nonsense approach to enforcement by hitting importers wi

One of the neat things about being a foreign trader and writing a foreign trade column is that one n

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USCO Logistics and two other companies plan to begin operation in January of an online transportatio

Towne Air Freight Inc. has purchased R&M Trucking, a 23-year-old cartage company that serves the Chi

In this space three weeks ago, the case of Heartland By-Products Inc. vs. United States was examined

On the site of the former vineyards of Quinta da Marqueza, past white-washed villages and scrub-cove

As the universe of asset management and insurance companies shrinks, a handful will consolidate to f

Sri Lanka's Ceylinco Insurance Co. Ltd. and Japan's Mitsui Marine & Fire Insurance have formed an al

The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

he JOC calendar is a detailed listing of upcoming events in transportation and logistics, regulation