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The all-important grain harvest in China for 1998 is projected to be the same as 1997 - well below t

Although 1998 was one of the most contentious years in the history of labor-management relations on

Dec. 30, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Dec. 31, 1998No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 19

In the past year, critics have viewed trade as a vulture that feeds on economic misfortune. In 1999,

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

Ecuador will impose a 1 percent to 2.5 percent tariff on all imports during the first quarter of 199

Cuban 1998 cigar and tobacco leaf exports earned $190 million, compared with $130 million in 1997, i

West Coast ports begin the new year with billions of dollars of construction projects under way to s

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

xporters and freight forwarders are expected to join the Automated Export System for filing paperles

It is early to predict what the 106th Congress will do in 1999, but prospects that it will do much a

As we hover on the verge of a new century and a new millennium, it's appropriate that 1999 figures t

ast year was quite a year for the transportation industry and 1999 promises to be no less. While we

''Challenging'' is the most common de- scription of the outlook for intra-Asian trade, for severa

atin America aficionados are watching and waiting to see how politics and economics will play out

Only table.

Thursday Dec. 31, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 190.71 off 0.23

Information technology will be the next sector on display at the International Trade Administration'

nly Columbus had fewer clues about where he was heading and what would happen when he got there.

U.S.-Russian talks last month on a deal to ease a virtual boycott on much of Russia's steel imports

Ukraine's Parliament approved the nation's 1999 budget Dec. 31, seven hours before the year-end dead

The saga of two ships rusting away in Virginia's James River, never completed and never used after t

Leading shipper and railroad officials appear ready to pursue a negotiated solution to longstanding

The trans-Pacific container shipping market of 1999 is expected to be a replay of 1998 with one

Shipping lines have added a new destination - euroland.The New Year's Day launch of the si

DIAMOND STATE PORT CORP. (PORT OF WILMINGTON, DEL.)R. Adam McBrideExecutive director

lobal markets were in turmoil in 1998 as the financial crisis spread from Asia to Russia to Latin Am

or some major trucking firms, 1998 in- cluded dark linings buried inside much needed silver clouds.

The tanker and bulk shipping markets increasingly resemble a high-stakes poker game. The bearish pla

year after spending $825 million to buy American President Lines of Oak- land, Calif., Neptune Or

Lost bags could become a thing of the past if an experiment with high-tech luggage tags works.

Seeing a window of opportunity that may last for only another year, shipping line in the eastbound t

Dec. 31, 1998RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

FUTURES - December 30, 1998 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - December 29, 1998All life-o

he next millennium will usher in a ''new world economic order'' as the world is on the path toward a

794 (Dec. 31, 1998) Previous day - 791The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lon

The $63 million 1998 budget overseen by the Cotton Board, a U.S. cotton promotion program watched ov

he rapid globalization of the auto industry has helped to insulate oceangoing car carriers from glob