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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 24, 1996 - May 22, 1997 (a graph)* A

The United States will urge its European partners next week to deepen their commitment to market for

Thursday May 22, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

CHEMICAL WEAPONS SALERESULTS IN SANCTIONSWASHINGTON - The Clinton administration Thursday mo

A key House panel is considering a series of exporter incentives as part of a bill aimed at counteri

ARCO PLANS OFFSHORE WELLNEAR ALASKAN SANCTUARYANCHORAGE - Arco Alaska Inc. plans to drill cl

''Where there is smoke in this industry, there is not always fire, but there definitely is smoke.''<

Members of the Pacific Basin Economic Council failed to reach common ground at their annual meeting

TOYOTA, HONDA DENYAUTO EXPORTS REPORTTOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Thursday

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Business travelers weary of toting around a bagful of adapters, cables and other paraphernalia as th

Federal regulators are under mounting pressure to abandon proposed clean air rules that opponents sa

Stephen Wise recalls the initial perils of exporting U.S. furniture to Asia.He remembers the

PERU FOLLOWS CHILEANPATH ON TRADE RELATIONSMIAMI - Peru is leaving the Andean Community beca

The Netherlands will respond to recent Chinese discriminatory trade actions by using bilateral and m

Texaco Inc. may seek a French partner to shore up its struggling European refining and marketing bus

VALUJET SEEKSLAGUARDIA ROUTEATLANTA - ValuJet Airlines has asked the Department of Transport

Airport users and service providers praised a Federal Aviation Administration plan to test airport p

A-MARI-TRANSMichael J. Schuller was appointed chief operating officer of this ocean forwardi

As a 22-year trade treaty with Europe expires at the turn of the century, Caribbean officials are me

A French court Wednesday ordered SNCF state railways to pay two anti-smoking groups $870 each in dam

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Question: Name an issue that California ports, longshoremen, shipowners, maritime unions, cruise lin

AIG SPLITS COMMONSTOCK, BOOSTS DIVIDENDNEW YORK - American International Group has declared

Members of the House Banking Committee began analyzing the Clinton administration's financial modern

Liberty Mutual of Boston this week made a proposal to acquire embattled Golden Eagle Insurance Co.,

AMERICAN INTERNATIONALGROUPEvan G. Greenberg has been elected president as well as chief ope

State-set workers compensation rates in Massachusetts are likely to decline for 1998, perhaps by as

The mammoth Chek Lap Kok Airport is on schedule for a much celebrated opening day in April 1998. But

When IBM Corp. started designing a logistics management software package, its executives pictured

Accountants for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International and Metropolitan Dade County government leade

SHIPSOPERATING REVENUE FALLSAT EVERGREEN MARINETAIPEI - Evergreen Marine Cor

ENGINE FAILURES GROUNDCATHAY PACIFIC PLANESHONG KONG - Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways ha

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

The Surface Transportation Board wants to know how trucking customers and carriers feel about possib

P&O Nedlloyd, the container shipping line, said Wednesday it lost $31 million in its first three mon

PORT OF OLYMPIA OPENSNEW CONTAINER TERMINALOLYMPIA, Wash. - A Sunmar Container line vessel d

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Unionized employees of United Parcel Service from around the world will hold labor-unity rallies at

Galileo International Partnership, an electronic reservations company owned by several airlines, sai