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WTO AGAIN RULES INDIANOT PROTECTING PATENTSWASHINGTON - The World Trade Organization has aga

China's largest shipping concern, eager to expand even more, faces a number of hurdles.China

Slow payment by the United Nations has helped put out of business a New Zealand company which suppli

Have you been avoiding doing business in Japan because you think it's too hard to break into this ma

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Sri Lanka is enjoying an increase in the number of foreign visitors as tourists abandon other popula

The financial turmoil making a great sweep through Asia has reached the shores of China.Chin

Taiwan government agencies are seeking to expand international markets to make up for the eliminatio

Hundreds of protesting truckers took to highways throughout Italy Tuesday, moving at a snail's pace

REGIONAL BLOCSHow to Fund Investment and Exports to Latin America, Africa, Asia, Central Eur

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JANUARYCalifornia State University. January and thereafter. Transportation, logistics and re

There is a large equipment market in South Africa that is competitive and much is produced locally.

Corporate advertising may tout customer service, but the American consumer seems sadly left out of t

Dec. 23, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

What is the one area in the United States that has the greatest potential for a $50 billion insu

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 231.36 off 2.02 wh

New York Mercantile Exchange - Dec. 22, 1997PREV. LIFE OF CONTR. OPENOPEN HIGH L

Cargo traffic at the world's airports increased 8.3 percent in the first nine months of 1997, to 40.

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International Petroleum ExchangeDec. 23, 1997 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Customs has issued a ''final'' checklist of measures that importers and their agents can use in meet

Grupo Libra/Companhia Maritima Nacional has appointed Libra USA Inc. as U.S. general agents for ocea

With 1997 about to end, it's still doom and gloom in the marine insurance market, despite underwrite

A coalition of unions withdrew their charge that South Korean color television manufacturers were tr

Just as two other big utility deals were falling apart, the country's third-largest power company sa

NO-NUKES ACTIVISTSPROTEST PLUTONIUM SHIPBONN - Anti-nuclear activists early Monday chained t

Panama Canal authorities are warning shipowners that beginning in February there may be capacity res

Mariners are a tradition-bound group and view certain nautical items as unchanging. This tradition,

Germany's shipbuilding industry is likely to suffer a fall in production of about 5 percent in 1998

The leads are classified and listed by their Harmonized System (HS) codes. U.S. firms should note th

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The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

The U.S. dollar drifted lower in desultory trading Tuesday amid a downward revision to U.S. third-qu

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 10 - Dec. 23, 1997 (a graph)* Annua

You've seen the IBM commercials on television: Three people sitting around doing nothing, asking eac

NORTH AMERICAGift & Home Furnishings. Jan. 7-15, 1998. Atlanta. Contact: Daniel McKinnon, (4

The Hexagon financial services system can be installed in your own office, giving you in effect an e

Truck driver Richard Crawford rose from his pew in the rear of the chapel and asked nervously as he