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Just about everyone in the railroad industry is asking the same question: Now that Transportacion Fe

Westinghouse Electric has agreed to pay $6 million to settle out of court with the trustee for Bonne

Friday Dec. 6, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Parallel Market Foreign Exchange Rates are based on unofficial, non-documented currency dealings and

Pakistan said China was willing in principle to provide Islamabad with a second nuclear power plant,

It's nothing personal, but U.S. Customs has chosen steel as one of eight industries it is targeting

For anyone hoping that ratification of the recent West Coast longshore contract would have ended the

''(They are) a series of disjointed country entities, each with their own policies, operating proced

WORLD BANK PLEDGES$2.4 BILLION FOR VIETNAMHANOI - Donor nations and agencies pledged aid tot

Recent efforts to break up the U.S. Commerce Department, increase its efficiency and privatize its o

In most industries, the competition between Japan and South Korea is not yet much of a contest - Jap

Boeing Co. moved further into the aerospace and defense market last week with news that it will comp

Steel traders must have nerves of steel these days.The financing of imports and exports has

Why go halfway around the world to buy something when you can buy it around the corner? That quest

IRAQ READY TO EXPORTIF UN OKS OIL SALECAIRO - Iraq said Friday it can start exporting crude

Virginia Power and five other utilities think they've found a way to make sure electrons pay their w

Federal agricultural officials say proposed restrictions are needed to keep Karnal bunt wheat fungus

The state-owned Petroleum Authority of Thailand is embarking on a five-year program to develop natur

European chemical exports are set to rise in 1997 by a buoyant 4 percent in volume terms, and import

JAPAN, US FAR APARTIN INSURANCE DISPUTETOKYO - Japan and the United States failed last Frida

Allstate has been accused of sending ''inaccurate, inappropriate and misleading'' letters to New Yor

They made their money on what the world's reinsurers refused to touch.But now Bermuda's prop

CASJENS: DESPERATIONMAY BRING TRADE SENSELONDON - Freight rates in the Europe/Asia trades ma

ACORDIA INC.Frank C. Witthun was named chief executive officer of the insurance brokerage fi

House and Senate lawmakers preparing for the opening of the 105th Congress next month are planning t

When business and government officials from across Latin America and the Caribbean get together this

Chile's recent entry into the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur in Spanish) is being billed as t

The legislation granting millions of U.S. workers an increase in the minimum wage contained a little

The United States just said ''no'' to Colombian President Ernest Samper last summer.Then the

Recovery and reform in Latin American and Caribbean economies have set off a scramble among U.S. and

A fierce campaign for president of the Teamsters, filled with virulent character attacks on both inc

When are legal goods illegal? When they're so-called parallel imports.This gray area involvi

GERMAN METAL INDUSTRYKEEPS SICK-PAY BENEFITSHANOVER, Germany - In a defeat for Chancellor He

It looks like Singapore will be the first U.S. textile trading partner to report an Elvis sighting e

U.S., Mexican and Canadian environmental officials and advocates, working with the North American Fr

India will likely support high-tech free trade efforts at this week's World Trade Organization meeti

With a Chinese government deadline for trade retaliation set for Dec. 31, Chinese and U.S. negotiato

Germany and France today will try to resolve outstanding differences over the last remaining buildin

Despite its recent endorsement of a grandiose plan to slash tariffs on telecommunications products,