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Mexico's national maquiladora association is joining forces with a number of government ministries t

All the talk of coaxing computers to clear the millennium hurdle assumes there will still be electri

The reformation of the Canadian Wheat Board is an issue that has sparked heated debate in western Ca

June 11, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

STB SETS HEARING DATEFOR DAKOTA RAIL PLANWASHINGTON - The Surface Transportation Board has s

Peter Kenen, director of the International Finance Section at Princeton University, said the U.S. do

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

Two prominent organizations representing importers and customs brokers are recommending that the U.S

''A carrier guy would love to work for a manufacturer. In many cases the salaries are much better.''

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker Rate Schedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Sched

CIGNA CORP.Terry L. Kendall has been appointed senior vice president of Cigna's Internationa

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Nabisco Inc. has bought Butterkist, one of Jamaica's leading biscuit producers, in a bid to expand i

The Russian government has reached ''understandings'' with the International Monetary Fund on econom

In announcing its first year of negative growth in two decades, Japan confirmed Friday that it is in

OFFERS TO BUY* SYNTHETIC WIGS. We would like to import synthetic wigs and are looking for wi

Ray Kroc did not found McDonald's. Kemmons Wilson did not select the name Holiday Inn for his motel

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INSURERS' MIDWEST STORMTAB PUT AT $650 MILLIONThree days of severe windstorms, hail and torn

While the Clinton administration continues to fight a challenge to U.S. turtle conservation law in t

Panama Canal workers have marched on the waterway's headquarters to protest against feared job losse

With $267.9 billion in transactions so far this year, the financial services sector is dominating th

Louisiana's cotton farmers will vote in September whether they want to help pay for a new multimilli

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

Florida stevedore Eller & Co. and New Jersey's International Terminal Operating Co. have merged thei

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The Maritime Administration approved a subsidy transfer plan that allows federal payments totaling $

President Clinton on Thursday turned aside angry criticism of his coming trip to China, saying that

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 211.29 off 0.22

The United States and Peru have signed an open-skies agreement, but one American carrier wants it kn

Thanks to new technology, airships filled with cut flowers soon may glide quietly over your head on

The Catalonia broke the record Wednesday as the commercial vessel with the fastest average speed in

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

A General Accounting Office official told a Senate committee this week that national security contro

U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman told reporters here Thursday that the Clinton administration will

MEXICAN TRADE DEFICITIS LESS THAN EXPECTEDMEXICO CITY - Mexico's monthly trade deficit in Ap

STATE FARM SETTLESCALIFORNIA QUAKE CASEWASHINGTON - State Farm Insurance Co. has paid $100 m

RUSSIA'S DUDINKA READIESFOR FIRST SHIP JUNE 25MOSCOW - The ice began breaking this week on t