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The European Union and Japan filed separate complaints Friday with the World Trade Organization alle

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DOT OKS END TO LIMITSON AIR DISASTER LIABILITYWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transporta

When freight forwarder Jerry Murphy explains how important shipping rates should be to manufacturers

Friday, Oct. 4, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The number of U.S. applications for patents in China nearly doubled in the first half of this year,

A rebel banana farmers' union in the eastern Caribbean has gone on strike over its desire to sell fr

Concerned by a growing tendency of organized crime taking advantage of trade liberalization to smugg

World steel demand will hit a record 680 million metric tons next year, up 3.4 percent from this yea

Proposed changes to Ontario's workers' compensation system will eliminate claims for chronic stress,

The nation's only fee-based vessel traffic system is apparently working so efficiently that it will

CAREY CLOSES TEXASTEAMSTERS CONFERENCEDALLAS - Teamsters President Ron Carey this week shut

Mechanics at ValuJet Airlines voted 42-28 Wednesday to accept representation by the Teamsters union,

HEATING OIL HITSA 5-YEAR HIGHNEW YORK - Heating oil prices reached a 5 1/2-year high at the

Asia-Pacific nations can make life easier for business by banding together on tariff reductions and

Conrail and the Transport Workers Union have asked the National Mediation Board to intervene in dete

Truck shippers are doing their own version of the Macarena as they continue dancing around fuel surc

Two rail operators are taking steps to upgrade their service networks.CSX Intermodal is rebu

A U.S. container company leased $30 million worth of intermodal containers from a bank via a financi

Ocean carriers have an insatiable hunger for money.For too long, though, they have relied on

The U.S. dollar fell slightly Thursday as the quick, sharp move up Wednesday created the desire amon

Two Jamaican commercial banks have merged to create the island's largest, but there continues to be

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The presence of so many sympathetic directors on Archer Daniels Midland's board created an environme

The thorny issue of U.S. maritime deregulation has spilled over to South America, with members of th

The business issues on the U.S. Supreme Court's docket for the new term starting Monday range from a

In a battle of political heavyweights, a $10 billion corporation took on the nation's labor unions a

Oct. 3, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

The complicated business of transporting cargo from one side of the globe to the other weaves a tang

IDB TO OFFER'SINGLE CURRENCY' LOANSWASHINGTON - A new Inter-American Development Bank policy

Oct. 3, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

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The country's first petrochemical complex is slowly taking shape after years of gestation punctuated

Opposition in the Russian Parliament has forced the government to revise its policy on production-sh

In Don Becker's Notebook, which appeared on Page 8B on Oct. 2, the name of the president of NYK was

ITT HARTFORD BUYSPRICOA OF SPAINNEW YORK - ITT Hartford Group Inc. purchased Pricoa Vida SA

It's a simple scam: cause a minor traffic accident, find a doctor who will support your whiplash cla

Malaysia will be little affected by the United States' withdrawal of tariff subsidies under the Gene

Clamco Corp.'s sales to the Pacific Rim are booming. For years, the small, Cleveland-based manufactu

P&O, STENA LINEMERGE CHANNEL ROUTESLONDON - The ferry operators P&O European Ferries and Ste