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A truck driver's nervousness led U.S. Customs Service inspectors to seize nearly 1,400 pounds of mar

Imported steel coils, pipe, plates, tubes and beams have been piled in warehouses and on the docks a

Violent protests, leaving dozens injured and three people killed, erupted in southern Thailand last

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

Eastern Europe didn't get a straight answer to the Big Question - when?Over the weekend, the

Norasia Lines, deploying untested new vessels in the North Atlantic, is confident that the ships wil

Dec. 11, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market PREV.CLOSE HIGH

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 6 - Dec. 11, 1998 (a graph)* Annual

The new Exxon Mobil Corp. would be the largest single supplier of jet fuel to the world's airlines i

As of Dec 11, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

Two former police officers and 19 others have been charged for taking part in bilking 10 insurance c

The leads are classified and listed by their Harmonized System (HS) codes. U.S. firms should note th

GERMANY: Unemployment rose in November by 4,000 from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted 4.1

Shipping lines that carry U.S. exports to Asia are congratulating themselves on pushing through a $1

Friday Dec. 11, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

'Exxon and Mobil are both competitors, they both have a lot of pride and they would like to see thei

Editors Note: We asked Milton Zall, an experienced journalist specializing in taxation, to look at t

A federal appeals court has clamped down on a practice in which companies suing a ship line over dam

An adverse ruling from the U.S. Customs' Service is not deterring a New York City costume maker from

he JOC calendar is a detailed listing of events in transportation and logistics,regulations,

Global freight traffic is forecast to average 5.3 percent growth a year between 1998-2002, the Inter

Robert Collins Jr., a Newport News, Va., port engineer who last week pleaded guilty to soliciting an

ften overlooked during a company's merger or acquisition are employees' 401(k) investments.L

The bottom line is simple: The decision by Maersk Line and Sea-Land Service Inc. on where to locate

Pacer International Inc., a multimodal transportation and logistics services company, said it has ex

Giant utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Co. may be facing $10 million in claims stemming from l

If Cuba is to become a full member of the Caribbean Community, it will have to embrace a social char

South Korea's Anam Semiconductor Co.'s board approved a deal to sell one of its plants to Amkor Tech

The story ''Bankers fear potential for bankruptcies,'' which appeared Dec. 2 on Page 3B, incorrectly

Historically, the U.S. dollar has been the investment currency of choice. But lately Europe has beco

China's shipbuilding sector, facing tough competition, sloshing red ink and a government determinati

Flatbed carrier Eck Miller Transportation has purchased CWP Transportation, a flatbed and truck brok

Dec. 11, 1998No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 19

Dec. 11, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Poe & Brown Inc. has acquired Insurance Center Inc., Albuquerque, N.M., and Maulden & McLendon Agenc

China's exports fell in November by 9.7 percent from a year earlier, following an alarmingly sharp d

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

Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union led the list of regions with heightened economic and poli

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