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Oh, shoot! Is Saint John in danger of becoming just too, too politically correct? Is 200-odd years o

Canadian insurance firm London Insurance Group Tuesday said that Winnipeg-based Great West Lifeco ha

REGIONAL BLOCSCanada, Mexico Documentation and Nafta Rules of Origin Seminars. Aug. 20, Anah

South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industry Co. has won a $57 million contract to build an oil platform for

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July's import prices were a welcome minus for U.S. inflation and the policy-makers concerned with it

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AUGUSTNational Maritime Historical Society. Aug. 30-Sept. 4, New York. Cruise to Bermuda. Co

In Tijuana, Mexico, 4,000 Mexican workers report at 7:30 each morning to their assembly lines at Sam

'They're shoving this down everyone's throat.'

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SEDGWICK CLAIMS MANAGEMENT SERVICESThe company, a division of broker Sedgwick Inc. in Chicag

New York's insurance superintendent will travel to Europe next month to try to establish a commissio

Global containership services are doing to traditional Mediterranean ports what the interstate highw

Sugar and fuel alcohol producers from Brazil's northeast are involved in a fraudulent scheme whereby

The Dominican Republic and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) have started negotiating a free-trade t

HAMBURGERS BEEF ABOUTALLEGED ILLEGAL MEAT BUYSHAMBURG - A Hamburg meat trader is suspected o

REEFER CARGO SERVICESTARTS FROM SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO - The Port of San Diego welcomed the star

How to use:Trade leads are sent to the USDA from U.S. agricultural attaches, counselors and

FROM THE UNITED STATES/CANADAVIETNAM. Aug 22-30. The Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, Orange

World air cargo traffic climbed 6 percent in May, led by double-digit growth in the Middle East and

RailAmerica Inc., of Boca Raton, Fla., and Pioneer Railcorp., of Peoria, Ill., reported higher earni

BURNHAM SERVICE CORP.David M. Foster was named vice president at this Atlanta-based, third-p

Officials in Jiangsu province said the Port of Jiangyin had received approval to build one 10,000-de

Decisive action is urgently needed if Bangkok's ailing real estate market is to avoid a prolonged ma

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

PRIVATIZATION PANEL HEADIN ST. PETERSBURG KILLEDMOSCOW - Mikhail Manevich, the head of St. P

Trying to pinpoint what caused an outbreak of E. coli bacteria, the Agriculture Department dispatche

Monday Aug. 18, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

The Ugandan government and a delegation from the International Monetary Fund are due to start talks

The U.S. dollar rebounded to just above 1.82 Deutsche marks in New York trading Monday after a rough

Talks between Russia's pipeline monopoly Transneft and Chechen oil company Yunko on the transportati

Hong Kong is going high-tech in its bid to woo more captive insurers, a business now dominated in th

SOUTH SEAS STEAMSHIPCHARTERS BOX VESSELSAN FRANCISCO - South Seas Steamship Co. has continue

JAPAN MOVES TO PRIVATIZENATION'S POSTAL SERVICESTOKYO - The head of a subcommittee of the go

A group of Peruvian oil workers held in the jungle by Maoist Shining Path guerrillas were all releas

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