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Middlemen handling exports from China to the United States must join the fight to keep out the Asian

The corn tortilla, Mexico's staple, has entered the uncharted territory of the free market this week

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 196.69 up 2.20

Kemper Reinsurance Co. will be named GE Capital Reinsurance Corp., GE Capital has announced.

Trans Union, a provider of consumer credit information to the insurance industry, has sold its subsi

Regional trading agreements may be helping raise the standard of dispute-resolution in trade and inv

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

Barge tows operating south of St. Louis have begun to sharply curb their operations as the fast deve

The Hong Kong government, in a rare departure from decades of laissez-faire, is intervening in a lon

El Al Israel's board of directors has given the company's management the go-ahead to prepare a prosp

Shipping industry officials say Indian exporters can't circumvent large freight increases announced

Two trains collided in China's northeastern Liaoning province on Sunday, killing 24 people, a railwa

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsSep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May J

China plans to invest at least 55 billion yuan ($6.6 billion) in railway construction in 1999, the o

As of Dec. 17, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Two lawyers, brothers, convicted for workers compensation fraud, are attempting to persuade the Mass

The Japanese economy has entered a vicious cycle of deflation and currency strength, economists said

American Express Co. plans to open a brokerage in Japan early next year, taking advantage of rules g

Mexico's commerce ministry Secofi promoted Luis de la Calle Pardo to undersecretary of international

Negotiations between Canada and the Palestinian Authority on a trade arrangement do not mean that Ca

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 27 - Jan. 7, 1999 (a graph)* Annual

United Airlines, the world's largest airline, said it is expanding its service at Washington Dulles

Union-Transport, a freight forwarder and supply chain management company, has bought G.M. Miller & C

Delta Air Lines, blaming Asia's economic woes, will suspend service between Portland, Ore., and Seou

Hong Kong has moved into the age of electronic trading, but companies are lagging behind government-

Thursday Jan. 7, 1999Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Large-employers' health benefit costs are increasing an average of 7 percent this year, almost twice

Indian trade and industry groups are hailing the free-trade pact recently signed with Sri Lanka, but

Saudi American Bank and United Saudi Bank are holding merger talks to create the Middle East's secon

Intermet Corp. said it bought 100 percent of the shares of Vorpommersche Eisenwerke GmbH Ueckermunde

Jan. 7, 1999Baltic international Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

While Iraq continues to suffer losses in its conflict with the United States, evidence is mounting t

Turkey's caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said Thursday that President Suleyman Demirel

Unemployment in the euro zone remained unchanged for the month of Novemberat 10.8 percent, according

The Bank of England Thursday cut its base rate 25 basis points to 6.00 percent, marking the fourth m

A row between the former and current presidents of Brazil may be putting the country's fragile econo

Europe's rail freight industry has been rocked by internal squabbles that are sapping efforts to win

Mexican truckers, arguing that they already pay twice as much at the pumps as their U.S. counterpart

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Tanzania grain importers have urged the government to extend a waiver of import duty on maize to oth