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For the first time in its 200-year history, the Customs Service has an action plan that is based on

Oct. 21, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Britain has agreed to a secret plan to re-equip the Argentine navy, its foe in the 1982 Falklands Wa

A top executive at Du Pont Co. has questioned the wisdom of outsourcing employees in an internal ele

The architect of Chile's renowned pension fund reforms, visiting this capital city, warned that Mexi

Oct. 21, 1996This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the e

With some reservations, Asian members of a regional trade group agreed to pursue an American idea fo

The Nigerian unit of oil giant Shell Corp., attacked by environmentalists over its operations in Nig

China is turning to overseas finance in a bid to ensure its exports of ships continue growing at a t

Monday Oct. 21, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

''As much as many of us would like to say money doesn't have an influence, that's like saying you be

MCDONALD'S OPENSFIRST OUTLET IN PERUOAK BROOK, Ill. - McDonald's Corp. said it opened its fi

While Proposition 211's potential impact on California's business community is open to wildly differ

A battle of epic proportions is under way in California over a ballot measure aimed at making it eas

CONSORCIO TRIX/SEF/GELBRAZILAmount of contract: $7,286,528.Contract description: Ext

China is moving another small, significant step toward opening its vast retail market to overseas pa

PRIVATE INVESTMENT RISEEXPECTED AMONG JAPANESETOKYO - Japanese private capital investment is

Cargo carriers in Mexico experienced uneven effects this year from a slowdown in the export boom tri

RUSSIAN WORKERS STRIKEAT 2 NUCLEAR PLANTSMOSCOW - Workers at two nuclear plants in western R

Europe's planned single currency is about to deliver a hammer blow to Germany's heavily subsidized c

Peso devaluation, a sharp economic downturn and a credit crunch have hobbled the capacity of Mexican

The shape of things to come in the U.S. power industry was brought into sharper focus at a meeting h

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After two months of study, the Clinton administration has denied a request for information on sales

The U.S. dollar fell against the Deutsche mark Monday and rose against the Japanese yen.The

Monday, Oct. 21, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Oct. 16, 1996 as supplied by the bunker fuel d

1176 (Oct. 21, 1996) Previous day - 1145The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Oct. 21, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateCchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 27, '95 - Oct. 21, '96 (a graph)* A

EASTMAN CHEMICAL MAYJOIN CHINA PLANT VENTUREKINGSPORT, Tenn. - Eastman Chemical Co. said Fri

New government guidelines have been issued to attract private investment to India's choked ports.

Imagine being able to retrieve and edit shipping manifests stored on a mainframe computer using Wind

The controversy over Mexico's sudden reversal of plans to privatize 61 secondary petrochemical plant

Japan's NEC Corp. said Monday that a slide in computer memory chip prices had come to a halt, but to

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lo

AIRGERMANY TOP AIR FREIGHTEXPORTER IN WORLD IN '95MARIETTA, Ga. - Germany was the wo

With Japan's Liberal Democratic Party more firmly in power after Sunday's general elections, prospec