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The U.S. Customs Service is quietly restructuring its Office of Investigations in Miami, shifting it

Imports help our country, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said Monday in affirming free trade at a t

A group of 40 U. S. property/casualty reinsurers wrote $15 billion in premiums during the first nine

D.C. Superior Court Senior Judge Leonard Braman has ordered some of the world's largest drug compani

Motor carriers have shied away from the Automat ed Export System until recently. Now it's begin nin

Bundesbank Council Member Ernst Welteke said that the European Central Bank needs a ''vote of confid

U.S. imports of specialty steel, which include stainless, tool and electrical steels, soared 10 perc

The Hungarian Cabinet Thursday approved a four-year strategy for small and medium-sized enterprises,

Prompted by its exporting community, the European Union is renewing its call for the World Trade Org

In its apparently ceaseless quest to drum up business, Singapore is accelerating liberalization of i

The world trading community is applauding structural reforms that Indonesia is implementing to open

General Electric Co. won a $160 million contract to supply engines for 10 Boeing 767-200ER jets, ord

Safmarine & Rennies Holdings Ltd., the South African shipping, freight and air transportation group,

Raymond B. Greer was named president of Ryder Integrated Logistics.He is currently senior vi

The Canadian rail industry has made huge strides in boosting productivity, but requires public polic

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International Petroleum ExchangeDec. 7, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

The board of directors of Belgium's Petrofina met Tuesday and unanimously approved the plan to merge

An industry that presents a unified front brings more power, stronger influence and a resounding voi

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

762 (Dec. 8, 1998) Previous day - 772The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursdays

The Dutch Damen Group is in the lead to acquire a majority stake in Romania's second-largest shipyar

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsAug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr.

As the United States prepares a final hit list of European products facing punitive tariffs in the E

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

Viking Freight Inc. will impose a 5.8 percent general rate increase, effective Jan. 4.The in

No business can afford the waste of time and money from an export delay because Customs Service pape

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. has purchased 9 percent of the outstanding ordinary shares of Isra

Egyptian aluminum producer Egyptalum is proceeding with a planned expansion of its primary smelting

f you're an entrepreneur with little or no budget for overseas travel, access to the Internet is lik

Taiwan's makers of computer chips, among the world's most dynamic, are in California's Silicon Valle

The United States has settled a dispute with Sweden over protection of intellectual property followi

Brazilian carmakers, desperate to pull out of a 13-month tailspin in demand, are pressing the govern

hile many exporters and forwarders fought the Automated Export Sys tem, C.H. Powell Co. saw it as a

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 30 - Dec. 8, 1998 (a graph)* Annual

Ports of the Delaware River are bracing for increased cargoes of fruit this winter. But labor is qui

It sure didn't take long.One day after James P. Hoffa declared victory in the race for the p

Senate and Clinton administration officials said Tuesday they'll press once again in 1999 for U.S. r

The Justice Department is reviewing Cargill Inc.'s plan to buy the worldwide grain operations of Con

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 194.87 off 0.23 wh