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The Central American shipping trade is like a hot new Latin American club. The place is getting crow

Central America should continue to get a slice of the foreign investment pie through the rest of the

REGIONAL BLOCSJapan-U.S. Southern Conference. Sept. 4-6. Houston. Contact: Greater Houston P

Several Central American nations are following the lead of Panama in modernizing infrastructure and

Poland is the largest single automotive market in Eastern Europe (not including the former Soviet Un

The investment climate is improving in Haiti, thanks to national economic and political reconstructi

NORTH AMERICARepresentaciones Guadalajara '96. Sept. 3-5. Mexico City. Contact: U.S. Trade C

Central America is increasing the clothing trade with the United States. And the pressure is on gove

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The Citicorp Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Citibank, has launched a $10 million funding initi

Wall's, a division of Anglo-Dutch consumer goods conglomerate Unilever, has in recent years been mak

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AFRICABOTSWANAThe impressive performance of manufactured exports is a notable feature of Bot

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

A new class of hungry competitors in Asia, led by South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and China, is hackin

Monday, Aug. 26, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Finally we can settle the argument over what the orchestra was playing the night the Titanic went do

The U.S. dollar drifted lower against the Japanese yen Monday and was little changed against the Deu

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 5, '95 - Aug. 24, '96 (a graph)* A

The United States and 17 other Asia-Pacific countries took important steps last week toward their go

COCA-COLA TAKES OVERPEPSI'S LEAD IN RUSSIAATLANTA - Coca-Cola Co. said Monday it has become

The Clinton administration has banned financial transfers from ''terrorist'' governments to U.S. cit

India's ambitious telephone privatization program won't be slowed by a corruption scandal involving

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

''It's been a little like remodeling a house. It's cost more than we thought it would, but we're exa

JAPAN NO. 1 PROVIDEROF INTERNATIONAL LOANSBASEL, Switzerland - Japanese banks remain the big

Fabiana Xisto dodged her way through the knot of human traffic like a samba dancer practicing a new

U.S textile exports were up by more than 7 percent to $3.9 billion for the first six months of this

Major industrial nations are far from solving every economic problem of the 1990s but they all boast

NEC'S RECEIVER ORDERSTOTAL $18.5 MILLIONTOKYO - Japan's NEC Corp. said Monday it had won a t

BOEOM/STV LYONSFranceAmount of contract: $14,114,598.Contract description: Construct

The new government of the Dominican Republic has started investigating alleged corruption in state-o

The U.S. paper industry, gratified by the Mexican government's decision last week rescinding a newsp

Democrat leaders Monday panned challenger Bob Dole's weekend proposal to militarize the U.S. border

In what some view as a key test of Germany's commitment to European subsidy rules, the German Cabine

SHIPSSIR KERRY JOINS BOARDOF OT AFRICA LINELONDON - Veteran steamship executive Sir

Malaysia's busiest port, envisioned by the government as a regional hub, is upgrading its electronic