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Maryland officials, in a bid to boost their chances to win a new superport for Sea-Land Service Inc.

Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced several changes to the agency's Office of Field Operati

Mexico reported a 2.2 percent year-on-year increase in exports at $8.25 billion for January, while i

Lexmark International, Lexington, Ky., will build a $33 million manufacturing plant in the Philippin

Canada ranks first in a KPMG survey comparing the G-7 countries and Austria in terms of how much it

Ireland's Minister for Science, Technology and Commerce Noel Treacy Friday announced the creation of

The potential for wild currency swings and the prospect of further rioting in Indonesia has the coff

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

Thanks to low wages and lucrative government incentives passed in the wake of Hurricane Mitch, more

The presidents of Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania signed an agreement on Thursday for a free-trade zone

Foreign investors scavenging for bargains amid the rubble of Asia's financial crisis could spark nat

The euro jumped two cents higher against the dollar last Thursday on news that German Finance Minist

While many U.S. ports are clamoring to convince the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge their waterway

The Surface Transportation Board announced the final scope for the environmental review of Dakota, M

997 (Mar. 12, 1999) Previous day - 978The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lon

Friday Mar. 12, 1999Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

The leads are classified and listed by their Harmonized System (HS) codes. U.S. firms should note th

The U.S. food aid program for Russia that began Friday will be free from corruption and fraud, the A

A certain amount of optimism is flowing through the container shipping business, at least on most lo

Railroad service providers are touting their consistency and improvement as reflected in the broad p

This article is the third and final in a series describing the importance for importers of retaining

Nike Inc. is being praised by critics for its pledge to reveal the locations of its overseas factori

Mexico's largest private business group, the Mexican Businessman's Council, said that it will invest

The Dominican Republic has tightened its banking regulations to counter money laundering and other f

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

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Three so-called peaks or high spots in the approach to Halifax harbor are being dredged to provide f

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The Customs Service is entering a new era of issuing multimillion dollar fines against major corpora

The Phalen coal mine rose up from the muddy flats of Cape Breton in 1987 to provide a future for tho

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Pulsecom, a Herndon, Va.-based digital subscriber line (DSL) telecommunications company, signed a ma

The EU Commission announced Friday that it would hold a special meeting this evening to consider the

While U.S. companies have flocked to Mexico in search of lower production costs, manufacturing v

U.S. insurance regulators got off to a ''late start'' in helping their industry prepare for the Year

The United Transportation Union is making a last-minute bid to derail the proposed merger between Ca

A Louisiana barging company has been forced to take 14 towboats out of service on the Mississippi Ri

A California lawmaker has introduced legislation that would expand both criminal and civil liability

The House Banking Committee last Thursday passed a bill to modernize the U.S. financial services ind