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It's high time for hemp, say farmers who are enlisting state legislatures in an effort to legalize c

Chemical giant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. is paying $7.7 billion for 80 percent of Pioneer Hi-Bre

Most U.S. seaports, if they have any Internet presence at all, have at least a rudimentary Web page.

As U.S. policy toward China comes under congressional fire, trade interests are desperately trying t

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Eurotunnel PLC, the operator of the Channel Tunnel, on Monday announced its first-ever profit since

The U.S. Customs Service seized more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine hidden in a container arriving at

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As of Mar 15, 1999Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600per

he JOC calendar is a detailed listing of upcoming events in transportation andlogistics, reg

Global Crossing Ltd. said it will construct South American Crossing, a subsea and terrestrial fiber

Japanese steel companies, in an effort to counter what they call a seriously misleading campaign by

The embattled Brazilian government has announced it will cut import duties as part of its anti-infla

Ericsson UK said it won a contract valued at $11 million from Interoute Telecommun- icaciones, the S

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'I am not prepared to go along with China's entry into the WTO at this time.'

Owners of private yachts can relax now that Britain's Maritime & Coast Guard Agency has said it neve

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Wedged between Argentina and Brazil at the end of the South American continent, Uruguay is bracing i

Like the expected change in seasons, a March custom in Mexico has been a parade of prominent busines

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The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey was scrambling early Friday to put the finishing touches

Farmers counting on $2 billion in congressionally approved disaster aid will have to wait until June

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 189.49 off 1.07

Venezuela's economy will shrink an estimated 3.8 percent this year, the finance minister said, indic

Ecuador's deepening currency crisis is likely to crush import traffic but may trigger an increase in

The chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee has promised to examine the harbor m

France's Alcatel, Europe's second-largest phone equipment maker, said it would cut 12,000 jobs, or 1

The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in London and New York, include the f

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Settlement of banking, insurance and labor claims related to the Nazi Holocaust against the German g

China's insurance sector is vibrant, with two dozen domestic and a handful of foreign players, but r

Mar. 11, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

U.S. farmers will see the lowest average price for their soybeans innearly a quarter century, $5.05

Shipping line competition in the Asia-to-U.S. trades ''has been all but eliminated . . . and there i