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Asia offers both the biggest market and the most significant competitive threat for U.S. companies.<

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As the government in Lagos encourages continued exploration of Nigeria's vast oil reserves, sales op

Rural Canadians are the foot servants of Canada's resource-based economy, a role that earns them low

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U.S. officials will campaign for improved aviation services in two European capitals over the next w

More than 90 percent of about 70 senior executives at top U.S. companies plan to make new or additio

Like an invading army laying siege to a well-defended medieval capital, the U.S. Embassy has gone on

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The Japanese economy has had its ups and downs in recent years, but Japan should not be counted out

Russian metal traders with the London-based Trans-World group say that when the dust settles in thei

Six catastrophes cost property/catastrophe insurers an estimated $675 million in losses for the firs

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China will slowly phase out monopoly trade in six important commodities as part of its long-stalled

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International trade has always contained a certain amount of risk and uncertainty. The booming trade

Joe Hughes, chairman and chief executive of the company that manages the American P&I Club, has sent

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For the week ended March 22, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

Scientists believe an Italian airliner that crashed in mysterious circumstances in 1980, killing 81

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Mexico's plan to improve hazardous waste and water treatment presents opportunities for foreign inve

Francis J. O'Brien, a partner at the law firm of Hill, Rivkins, Loesdberg, O'Brien, Mulroy & Hayden,

The Pakistan government's economic package announced late last week received a qualified welcome, wi

Fueled by Mexico's economic recovery and growing sales to Brazil, Texas posted another year of recor

Growing awareness of the Internet is likely to promote the use of electronic data interchange for co

Europe's first rail freight ''freeway'' from the northern ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam to Italy's

U.S. firms looking for a competitive edge in the increasingly intense global market need go no fu

NORTH AMERICAGlobal Link '97. April 9. Tarrytown, N.Y. Contact: Amy Allen, World Trade Counc

Insurers and other managed-care companies in New York can no longer keep doctors from discussing all

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