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The Asian economic crisis is casting a shadow over Latin America, worsening the region's payments de

House Banking Committee Chairman James Leach, R-Iowa, on Tuesday indicated he hopes Congress won't s

FDS INTERNATIONALOPENS HOUSTON UNITHOUSTON - FDS International Inc., a freight-forwarding so

'The westbound trade is tough. It's very tough.'

World crude steel production increased by 6.6 percent, or nearly 50 million tons, in 1997 to reach a

HARVARD, MOSCOW PLANHOME MORTGAGE PROGRAMCAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University has agreed to

Unhappy trade and transport groups are trying to beat a Friday deadline to respond to a U.S. Customs

Boeing Co. said it led the industry in new orders for commercial airplanes last year, but its rival,

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The legal morass entangling the liquidation of General Electric Corp.'s major environmental liabilit

Leading Lloyd's of London analyst, Chatset Ltd., predicts profits at Lloyd's for 1997 will be severe

AON GROUPLarry R. Sorenson was named executive vice president of alternative market operatio

The last of three new U.S.-owned, -crewed and -subsidized containerships was launched for Farrell Li

Nevada's insurance department, the only one never accredited by the National Association of Insuranc

The government has spent $162 million and more than 10 years trying to discover what makes the upper

By the time all the icicles melt, the ice storm that put New England and parts of Ontario, Quebec an

MC SHIPPING WINSISO CERTIFICATIONNEW YORK - MC Shipping, of Monaco, which operates 13 mostly

Shipping companies have protested to the Kenya Ports Authority over congestion at the container carg

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U.S. management consultant Richard Wetherill used to counsel that if businesses took the moral h

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With the mandate of the Customs Modernization Act that importers adhere to a ''reasonable care'' s

Regional blocsCanada, Mexico Documentation and Nafta Rules of Origin Seminars. Feb. 3-4, Sea

883 (Jan. 13, 1998) Previous day - 889The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursday

In the 1980s, Jacques Cousteau explored its exquisite coral reefs. Today, everyone from American col

Workers at the Ursus tractor factory are famous troublemakers.They fought the communists in

Americans have diverse and sometimes offbeat tastes - a fact often reflected in the goods they impor

Western EuropeGERMANYIn a rare move, Bonn has adopted European Union requirements ah

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Less than a week after Iranian President Mohammed Khatami called for a dialogue with the American pe

Hundreds of Southern California residents will crowd into a Long Beach auditorium tonight to attend

Is there is a ''fuse'' that threatens to touch off a financial crisis in China?China economi

SHIPS17 CREWMEN RESCUEDFOLLOWING COLLISIONCOPENHAGEN - Seventeen crewmen wer

As a Maryland company shipping heavily to the western United States, Micros Systems Inc. faced whopp

Union Pacific Railroad's service has bounced back from a holiday-related slowdown, but the performan

The Grand Alliance shipping-line consortium is moving to bolster its services between Europe and Asi