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

The Pacific Maritime Association, in a move that would significantly change employer-employee relati

Traders, bankers and regional officials reacted with relief Wednesday to reports the International M

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 31, 1997 - Sept. 16, 1998 (a graph)

World economic growth is projected at just 2 percent - compared with 3.2 percent posted in 1997 - an

Imports play an underappreciated role in creating U.S. jobs and in the competitiveness of U.S. manuf

The World Bank agreed to loan the Mexican government $1.305 billion to support education and health

Iran's payments to creditors are coming under pressure from depressed oil prices - a development whi

The Joint Public Advisory Committee of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation i

The Clinton administration Wednesday planned to announce a further relaxation of U.S. export limits

'The higher rates are being driven by the fact that our planes are flying full inbound.'

The end of a lengthy strike at General Motors Corp. led to the biggest surge in U.S. industrial outp

The Belarusian government is cracking down on food exporters, officials said Wednesday, in an effort

The Port of Manzanillo, once dubbed Mexico's port of the future, is again getting attention as carri

An influential Canadian government task force recommended Tuesday that the country end its longstand

U.S. Customs is once again requiring visas on the tens of millions of dollars of clothing being impo

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

Beginning today, The Journal of Commerce begins a special weekly report on the high-yield bond marke

Political sense doesn't often shine through in the commercial industries, at least not without a lot

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsJun Jul Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar

PORT AUTHORITY OFNEW YORK & NEW JERSEYInvestment banker and venture capitalist Ronald Shifta

Bangladesh is deploying its army and navy to clear flood-delayed cargo at the ports of Chittagong an

SEPTEMBERInternational Air and Ocean Transport Seminar. Sept. 18. Memphis. Course on interna

Sept. 16, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close Hig

The levels of investment in maquiladoras, and plans for new plants and expansion of existing operati

The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in London and New York, include the f

David Wong, senior vice president of Pacific Bank, will be the keynote speaker at the Containerizati

It will take at least three months to temporarily reopen some 2,100 miles of rural roads damaged by

872 (September 16, 1998) Previous day - 867The Baltic International Freight Futures Market i

Egyptian Privatization Minister Atef Ebeid said the country will broaden and deepen its sell-off pro

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange will soon begin curbing foreign exchange operations at

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curre

Republican supporters of legislation to give President Bill Clinton new congressional authority to n

GENEVA - The global watchdog agency for copyright, trademark and patent protection agreed Tuesday to

This is one in a series of profiles of small businesses that were recipients of the 1997 Small Busin

With the United States imposing sanctions for everything from nuclear tests to unpaid parking ticket

Customs brokers and freight forwarders are blitzing Congress in a last-ditch bid to raise concerns a

U.S. importers and cargo consolidators are in such a panic to meet Christmas shipping deadlines that

If there is one case that stands out in illustrating the failure to date of a U.S.-Japanese deal to

President Clinton's suggestion Monday that the Group of 7 cut interest rates to stimulate the global