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A newly formed council composed of California and Arizona citrus growers is vociferously opposing a

Congress faces an array of pressing questions on international trade and transportation this session

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A proposal to form a new cooperative agreement among ship lines on the North Atlantic trades will be

Monday Feb. 8, 1999Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

A joint venture of two American companies began production and supply of natural gas in Bangladesh a

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Late last year, an insurance training center run by Chubb Corp. in New Jersey graduated several Russ

Chubb Corp. said that it will buy Executive Risk Inc. in a transaction valued at $850 million, or $7

Shareholders in Irish Life PLC have voted in favor of a merger with Irish Permanent PLC.Iris

Feb. 8, 1999Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close Hig

''When you have a man or a woman laboring under this kind of debt and then you say to them these are

The Economic Strategy Institute said that the dumping of steel products in the United States by fore

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will travel to Washington at the invitation of President Clinton

LONDON - The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Feb. 3, 1999 as supplied by the bunke

The Japanese economy hit bottom last fall and will pick up in the second half of the fiscal year sta

Canada's unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent - its lowest level since June 1990 - from 8 percent t

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

The drama of defiant fishermen battling killer storms may be gone, but there's a new battle over cut

Feb. 5, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Thailand's insurers, already battered by falling premiums and bad investments, face a government red

Taiwan's China Shipbuilding Corp., taking a beating from rival Asian yards, says it will try to expa

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

The government here is hoping that a meeting of trade ministers from around the world slated for lat

After several years of sustained lobbying to keep duty-free sales in the European Union, ferry opera

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

A U.S.-Canada trade agreement limiting the amount of Canadian softwood lumber that may enter the Uni

on't send Fernando Alvarez flowers for Valentine's Day.It's not that the Miami fish importer

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Paraguay's President Raul Cubas is scheduled to meet with Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Card

Singapore's important electrical manufacturing sector showed strength in volume and prices during th

After protracted and often vituperative wrangling, executives representing Hong Kong terminal opera

After years of rancor and antagonism, waterfront employers and dockworkers, almost overnight, have b

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Strength among some of the larger companies on The Journal of Commerce/Bridge Transportation index,

A plan by Russia's Gazprom to build the world's deepest underwater pipeline across the Black Sea to

Aetna Inc.'s life insurance and annuity unit will offer a stock fund investing in companies controll

Indian customs authorities have slapped a duty demand of 730 million rupees ($17.1 million) on Sony

Manugistics Group Inc. announced that Limited Inc. has chosen Manugistics' supply-chain software to