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Falling insurance rates - both for shipping as well as political risk - are encouraging trade and in

The biggest challenge Ford Motor Co. faces in getting its products from the assembly line to its ove

The yellow tractor - a sign of growth and development in rural areas and big cities around the world

Nelson Miller is a rare breed: He has spent his entire career with a single company, Bridgestone/Fir

Fed up with the growing U.S. proclivity to impose uni- lateral economic sanctions against other c

Pronouncing his 10-day trip to Latin America very successful, Commerce Secretary William Daley says

Facing dwindling timber supplies and rising demand, the United States may be forced to look overse

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FAA NIXES REQUEST FORDELAY IN FEE COLLECTIONWASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration

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The California Assembly Insurance Committee has passed legislation prohibiting homeowner insurers fr

The way Charlie Beinkampen sees it, the 1960s brought the world bell-bottoms, flower power and outso

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

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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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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