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

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

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

ATLAS AIR INC.R. Terrence Rendleman was appointed senior vice president technical services a

British antitrust authorities handed down what could be the best deal British Airways and American A

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

For the week ended November30, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equale

Intermodal marketing companies continue to accelerate the diversification of their business away fro

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

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

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

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

1453 (Dec. 6, 1996) Previous day - 1445The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100%) is as follows

Friday, Dec. 6, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Dec. 6, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 34.

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

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

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

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

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

Traders expect more turbulence in the currency markets this week as strong year-end forces surface a

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Seven years after federal prosecutors moved to expel the mob from the Teamsters union, the governmen

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

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

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

RAILBNSF OPENS NEW ROUTETHROUGH WASHINGTONSEATTLE - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Cor

In an ironic twist, clean air standards designed to help the environment may end up penalizing clean

1445 (Dec. 5, 1996) Previous day - 1440The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

New York Mercantile Exchange - Dec. 5, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

U.S. and Chinese textile negotiators worked into the night Thursday in talks to end a dispute over m

JAPAN TRADE MINISTERWON'T ATTEND WTO MEETTOKYO - Japan's Trade Minister Shinji Sato, trouble

The world may seem a safer place today, but you'd never know it by the volume of political risk insu

Conrail shareholders may decide whether the company's $8.7 billion merger with CSX Corp. goes forwar

On Halloween, German customs officials got suspicious when a shipping manifest claimed that two 1949

The planned merger of P&O Containers and Nedlloyd Lines is unlikely to precipitate much further cons

Excavation of the French shipwreck La Belle, considered the most important current archaeological pr