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Hungarian Minister of Economic Affairs Attila Chikan and his Lithuanian counterpart Kestutis Babiliu

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

Sri Lanka's Port of Colombo has increased its cargo-handling capacity by 100,000 containers with the

How to use:Trade leads are sent to the USDA from U.S. agricultural attaches, counselors and

Guatemala has lowered its estimate of coffee losses from Hurricane Mitch to 15 percent of the expect

Modest ocean freight rate increases announced by leading North Atlantic container lines were oversha

The Indian government has awarded four road projects worth a total 973.7 million rupees under its Bu

GE Capital has acquired Moral SA, a value-added insurance broker based in Paris. The company will be

Poland's economic outlook for 1999-2000 remains ''promising,'' as prudent macroeconomic policies hav

The International Trade Commission voted unanimously to let dumping and subsidy investigations into

Exhibiting at trade shows overseas is different from exhibiting at shows in the United States, trade

The United States, the European Union, Canada, and other major agricultural exporting countries are

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Michel Camdessus said he was confident Ecuador would d

Isuzu Motors Ltd. said it lost 5.2 billion Japanese yen ($42.62 million) in its latest fiscal half-y

Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater proposed on Tuesday to create a presidential advisory council

Brazil's on-again, off-again waterfront labor squabble has apparently idled the Port of Rio de Janei

Three weeks ended Nov. 7, 1998, vs. similar 1997 periodCars Cars Loaded Loaded

Importers have lost a battle to end a Clinton administration policy that allows anti-subsidy penalti

Taking a page from Amazon.com, tomorrow's insurers may become virtual companies that interact electr

Consumers Union has urged Congress to keep American consumers in mind next year when it grapples aga

Net Earnings has announced a significant equity investment by NAC Re Corp.Net Earnings' prod

South Korean companies in several industries will be given greater access to Chinese business under

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

Kvaerner A/S, the troubled Anglo-Norwegian construction and shipbuilding group, is facing more probl

Strained bilateral trade relations between Japan and the United States are playing second fiddle to

Kaiser Permanente, one of America's biggest health maintenance organizations, said it has selected a

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

966 (November 17, 1998) Previous day - 965The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

'Frankly, we're falling behind.'

Now the hard work begins.The world's newest automaker, DaimlerChrysler AG, officially became

The convenience - and relative low-cost - of Internet trade shows aside, the old-fashioned fair wher

Agriculture powerhouse Cargill Inc. has plenty of money to buy the grain assets of rival Continental

The Trans World Group of London is making a bid to recapture control of Novolipetsk Metal Combine fr

Nov. 16, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Colombian President Andres Pastrana has declared a limited state of emergency rule, seizing broad po

Thailand's push toward high technology and heavy industries has been condemned as a major reason for

The Border Trade Alliance, representing trade and transport interests on both sides of the 2,000-mil

In less than a year, Columbus Line USA Inc. and its parent company, German-based Hamburg-Sud, have a

The Mexican government has released a proposed budget for 1999 that takes the unusual step of settin

The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has completed its conversion from a mutual life insura