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Two U.S. chain stores - Starbucks coffee houses and Wal-Mart department stores - have become beachhe

NEW YORK APPROVESCOMP RATE REDUCTIONALBANY, N.Y. - Workers compensation premium costs will d

Japan's Transport Ministry says the country's ports are losing their competitive edge because their

Trucking companies continued to deliver good financial news Thursday, as motor carriers from three d

OFFERS TO BUY* PESTICIDES. General garden pest controls and indoor insect pests such as cock

The Army Corps of Engineers has filed a notice of intent to begin an environmental and economic revi

With the once-dominant Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG shipbuilder in bankruptcy and broken into pieces, th

'We argued for safeguards in Nafta. What we warned of has happened, and the tariff and quota provisi

July 16, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Russia's unemployment at the end of June, calculated according to World Trade Organization methodolo

An agribusinessman has a radical suggestion for dealing with the many obsolete grain facilities in I

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Those Elvis sightings just won't disappear.Indonesia is set to become the fifth country to h

The Air Force has decided to discipline a top legal officer charged with trying to bar Jews from a U

1369 (July 16, 1997) Previous day - 1369The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

U.S. Customs officials will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Hong Kong July 23 and 24 to disc

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 235.15 up 0.64 wh

As Russian government and banking officials contradicted one another in Moscow Wednesday, the contes

LOUISIANA LAW COULD CUTAUTO INSURANCE RATESBATON ROUGE, La. - Car insurance rates could drop

CANADIAN NATIONALCanada's largest freight railroad hired Gary L. Gibson to run its new risk

The Port of Los Angeles was working at a frantic pace Wednesday as terminal operators hustled to mov

President Clinton has once again declined to apply the full force of U.S. law against foreign citize

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

The U.S. dollar rose to 1.80 Deutsche marks Wednesday after German Finance Minister Theo Waigel fail

DELAYS CONTINUE FROMAMTRAK-CSX ACCIDENTALEXANDRIA, Va. - Commuters are still facing train de

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ONGOINGExport Documentation, Procedures and Letters of Credit. Seminars in August sponsored

Directors of the Britannia Protection and Indemnity Club are warning that shipowners' costs could ri

Privatization is the key to Bremerhaven's recovery program.After losing market share last ye

The European Union's historic embrace of its former communist neighbors will undergo a mood change v

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

President Eduard Shevardnadze flew to the United States on Wednesday in preparation for a meeting wi

As of July 16, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

North America's price advantage over South America in ocean shipping of grains to Southeast Asia wil

TRUCKSARKANSAS BEST COMPLETESSALE OF ITS CARDINAL UNITFORT SMITH, Ark. - Ark

JAPAN PROPOSES BUILDINGVIETNAM STEEL FACILITYHANOI - The Japanese International Cooperation

''Oh wow! This is really neat!'' said Vice President Al Gore, eyeing an electronic collision-avoidan

Dozens of unionized clerical employees at the Port of Oakland called in sick Tuesday, prompting the

Half-a-million people living in the Gulf Arab emirate of Sharjah are fuming after diesel from a grou