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Whenever I instruct export basics, I always get a laugh when I get to the free-on-board term. As e

The European Union is developing several directives that could produce headaches for foreign manufac

The European Commission has accused South Korea of using International Monetary Fund aid to undercut

Nov. 17, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market PREV.CLOSE HIGH

World trade volume is projected to increase by 5.3 percent in 1999 and by 6.1 percent in 2000, an ec

U.S. cattle ranchers will file an anti-dumping complaint against live cattle from Mexico and Canada,

Office Depot Inc. said it has acquired the remaining 50 percent of its French operations from its jo

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A Canadian consortium has signed letters of intent with a syndicate of eight international banks to

'We are committed to a full and timely enforcement of our trade laws.'

In a major blow to the western state of Maharashtra's development efforts, P&O Ports India Pvt. Ltd.

Australia has lifted a suspension on U.S. fresh fruit imports that had been imposed after a recent M

Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. recently designated Lynden International, a division of Lynden Air Fr

Fearing the spread of the voracious Asian longhorned beetle, the U.S. government has slapped a quara

Central Reserve Life Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Central Reserve Life Corp., has agreed to purcha

Mexico's Energy Minister Luis Tellez said that Mexico would extend export cuts, put in place this ye

Nov. 13, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

One of China's Big Three airlines is planning all-cargo flights to the United States and Western Eur

Polar Air Cargo has started weekly 747 freighter service between the United States and Kenya, South

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China's trade surplus plunged to $3.08 billion in October, down 38.1 percent on a year earlier in th

The wave of global difficulties will not deter the basic trend toward freer trade, said the Canadian

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The pharmaceutical market in Asia has nose-dived and global pharmaceutical companies must change the

Monday Nov. 16, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Trinidad and Tobago's efforts to attract foreign investment have been rewarded by the decision of a

Feast turned to famine for transportation stocks last week as The Journal of Commerce Stock Index tu

Taiwan is moving ahead with plans to privatize its air cargo handling operations at the island's mai

Freight management service provider John M. Brining Co. is launching a service for commodities movin

The ranks of uninsured Americans continued to grow in 1997, even though the percentage of non-elderl

Two authoritative sources have cast further gloom over the international marine hull insurance marke

India reacted sharply to the U.S. decision last week to bar American companies from doing business w

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Export heavyweights Germany and France said that long-standing trade surpluses are starting to shrin

A reform package proposed by Mexico's Commerce Ministry for maquiladoras has the maquiladoras worrie

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Two oil tankers collided Friday in the Lingding Sea at the mouth of Zhujiang River in southern Guang

SAP AG, a producer and marketer of enterprise resource planning software, has opened SAP Labs India,

BAX GlobalDan Crowley, Frito-Lay's vice president of planning, has agreed to join this trans