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The Bangladesh government is promising a quick response to a long list of complaints from foreign in

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 243.66 up 1.67 wh

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Aug. 28, 1997 as supplied by the bunker fuel d

Vietnam Airlines' aim to upgrade its fleet and project itself as a regional carrier suffered a setba

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

One of the longest-running battles in British legal history ended with Elf Enterprise failing to rec

Princess Diana could have survived the fatal car crash in Paris if she had been wearing a seat belt,

Japanese authorities have remained quiet on the dollar's recent rise above the 120-yen level because

Multinational companies facing transfer pricing disputes were able to defend their profit to tax aut

As Congress debates whether there should be a link between the environment and trade, the environmen

Russia's oil sector, once viewed as a promising frontier for foreign oil companies, is now regarded

Tianjin Automobile Industrial (Group) Co. will become the first company in mainland China to list it

Freed from half a century of war, Central American leaders agreed to build a European-style politica

The Surface Transportation Board turned aside a bid by a Delaware-based chemical company to gain bro

AIG UNIT BUYS MAJORITYOF BRAZIL'S BANCO FENICIANEW YORK - American International Group Inc.,

Sept. 3, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

Sept. 3, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

FAA INVESTIGATIONYIELDS 14 LETTERSNEW YORK - A team of Federal Aviation Administration inspe

SOME LATIN CURRENCIESOVERVALUED, EXPERT SAYSHAMBURG - Some Latin American currencies are ove

Working against an Oct. 15 deadline to finish its business for the year, congressional leaders are r

The United States was hours away Wednesday from resorting to economic sanctions against Japan over a

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 20, 1996 - Sep. 3, 1997 (a graph)*

RANGER OIL ACQUIRESELAN IN FRIENDLY MERGERCALGARY, Alberta - Ranger Oil Ltd. said it agreed

Kirin Brewery Co., a major Japanese beer maker, said Wednesday it plans to cut its staff by about 20

Setting international uniform targets on greenhouse gas emissions could backfire and result in the p

In Wednesday's Don Becker's notebook, the title of Ed Emmett was incorrectly stated. He is president

WILBUR SMITH ASSOCIATESW. Don Welch was named senior consultant for ports. Mr. Welch served

The Surface Transportation Board has made specific rules and regulations for its new arbitration alt

SHIPSAUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTGETS STRIKE WARNINGMELBOURNE, Australia - The Aust

Conrad H.C. Everhard, chairman of Cho Yang (America) Inc., will receive the ''Person of the Year Awa

A group of nine Chinese property insurers has formed a consortium to underwrite coverage of the coun

India and the United States, edging toward each other after decades of suspicion, begin a series of

Tongue River Railroad, an eastern Montana rail project that has been on the drawing board for nearly

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee returns to Superfund reform business with a hearin

So there I was, crying in my beer over the prospect of the Navieras shipping line taking its Puerto

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

General Electric Canada Inc. said it is part of a group that won a $320 million contract to supply e

'On the surface it looks like they're cooperating, but underneath there's a lot of scrambling going

Wednesday Sept. 3, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent