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BELARUS FUR FARMERSKILL STOCK IN FOOD CRISISThe slaughter season at Belarusian fur farms alw

A $650,000 government study that found little evidence of discrimination in the sale of homeowners i

Tianjin, the largest port in northern China, handled the equivalent of just over 1 million 20-foot c

French state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais may cut 1,500 jobs in 1999 if it goes ahead with a new emplo

Advocates of a federal proposal to allow importers, exporters and intermediaries to file all trade d

Ukraine said Wednesday it had reached a deal U.S.-based Itera International Energy on the transporta

Joseph Polking, secretary of the Federal Maritime Commission, has retired after 33 years of service

Charles Winwood, U.S. Customs' assistant commissioner for the Office of Strategic Trade, and Stuart

A leading organization of European and Japanese ocean carriers has urged the Federal Maritime Commis

An item headlined ''Overnite plans to take a Northeast advantage,'' which appeared on Page 14A Tuesd

To most farmers, deer are crop-eating pests. But Leonard Miller thinks that raising deer for their m

The Nicaraguan government has reached a settlement agreement with E.D. & F. Man and its local partne

TO OUR READERS:The Export Trade Opportunities and Agricultural Trade Leads features that nor

The United States government made one last effort to restrain textile imports in 1998 with its inten

Russian authorities appear to be unprepared for the introduction of the euro, and have not yet decid

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is blocking the runway to rehabilitation of debt-laden Philippine Airlin

Iraq and Jordan have signed an oil agreement under which Baghdad will supply Jordan this year with 4

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void Florida this month if dealing with standards and conformity assessment isn't your idea of how

The U.S. Commerce Department said last week that it issued rules relaxing U.S. export limits on data

Here are the key findings in the Urban Institute's pilot study, ''Testing for Discrimination in Home

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

The Japanese yen nudged the euro out of the spotlight Tuesday, bullying its way to a 28-month high a

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A federal appeals court upheld key portions of a lower court ruling that found the Surface Transport

Final talks are scheduled for today on the long-awaited deepening of the major channel into the Port

Strike talk at a Ford Motor Co. plant in Sao Paulo gained momentum this week as nearly 2,800 workers

PennCorp Financial Group Inc. has sold its Career Sales division and the Professional Insurance Co.

With the fish factories shuttered and the one-note economy in shambles, the Russians on these stormy

India's largest car maker, Maruti Udyog Ltd., launched a co-branded credit card on Tuesday in associ

Although Canada's hottest housing markets cooled off somewhat in the second half of 1998, most regio

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The investment arm of the World Bank is investing $31 million in a $70 million expansion project at

As part of a careful compromise, the Clinton administration will allow some food sales to Cuba but w

Freight transportation stocks ended a disappointing year with a broad rally last week.Each o

India and Nepal on Tuesday renewed the transit treaty allowing land-locked Nepal transit facilities

American chemical giant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. is a leading candidate to buy a strategic stak

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