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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

Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah bin Abdel Aziz has urged members of the Organization of Petroleum Export

Citigroup Chairman John Reed said the company is planning to enter the insurance business in Japan a

U.S. balance of trade figures are a key measurement of how well the nation's economy is doing, and t

or purposes of international sales negotiations, importers should be familiar with the types of tr

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

Tennant Co., the world's leading manufacturer of industrial floor-maintenance equipment, said it sig

European Central Bank Vice President Christian Noyer said Tuesday the U.S. dollar will remain the ma

he Automated Export System is a unique cooperative effort by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau

It took Customs and the trade community almost three years of bitter negotiations to develop regulat

The International Maritime Organization is expected to start a process this week that could overhaul

It's countdown time for shippers and freight forwarders accustomed to filing export data with the go

New York Mercantile Exchange - Dec. 7, 1998PREV. LIFE OF CONTR. OPEN OPEN HIGH LOW

Israel's main shipping line will get priority berthing at South Korea's largest port and at a new co

The planners of a revolutionary high-speed ship have gotten a big break: a preliminary deal to carry

Hvide Marine Inc. has inaugurated its latest double-hull lightship tanker.In a statement, th