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Alan Stuart is a Toys ''R'' Us kid, having joined the company fresh out of the University of New Ham

For IBP Inc., the nation's biggest exporter of red meat and related products, nothing is more import

When top brass at American Honda Motor Co. Inc. talk, they say ''Buy American.'' Their slogan cou

After a disastrous 1996, the worldwide spot market for commodity semiconductor chips is coming into

Welcome to The Journal of Commerce 100! This is a new special section, designed to introduce readers

Most major shippers are reasonably well known, ei- ther for their size or be- cause they deal pub

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 253.14 off 0.55 wh

El Paso Energy International Co., a business unit of El Paso Energy Corp., said it has acquired a 31

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GLOBAL REGULATORS TO MAPHIGH-RISK FINANCIAL RULESTOKYO - Regulators from 17 countries will j

Several years ago, when the Shining Path guerrillas were blowing up power plants in Peru, John Freiv

Shipping products like fluff pulp to relatively small and remote areas of the world is one of the bi

Big infrastructure projects and a faster pace of deregulation have created a large market opening f

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

FACTORY SHUTDOWNS ADDTO COTTON IMPORT WOESBANGKOK - The closure of two Thai textile factorie

An IWD economic institute report said a 0.2 percent reduction in western German unit wage costs sinc

The Pakistan government is protesting the United States' attempt to curb its exports of combed cotto

Upcoming U.S. foreign trade figures, including those due out today, will help determine whether the

The damage was done to the U.S. dollar Tuesday even before the Federal Reserve decided not to raise

Kmart Corp., the nation's third-largest retailer, is buying products from a company controlled by Ch

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India's Ministry of Commerce expects to proposed a phased lifting of quantitative restrictions on im

GEORGE MUNOZ CHOSENAS OPIC PRESIDENTWASHINGTON - President Clinton has chosen George Munoz,

With 41 days to go to Hong Kong's historic change of sovereignty, the colony's senior civil servant

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As of May 20, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 19, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

As ocean freight rates have softened, Weyerhaeuser Co. has increased its vigilance to ensure the com

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NORTH AMERICA3rd Annual World Trade Week Marketplace Exhibit. May 22. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

MIDDLE EASTUNITED ARAB EMIRATESBeginning June 1 in Abu Dhabi and July 1 in Dubai, al

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

''Canadian apparel manufacturers have good quality, good fashion, good service, but for the most par

Last month Sen. John McCain, a former Navy aviator and now chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science