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''This isn't Russia; the controls are ridiculous.''

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

Monday, Aug. 5, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

The U.S. dollar rose against the Deutsche mark Monday, as the German currency was sold heavily again

President Clinton Monday signed into law a bill to punish foreign companies that invest in oil and g

The United States fully achieved its goals in last week's U.S.-Japanese semi-conductor trade accord,

Consumers have played a decisive role in making Fuji Film Co. the top seller of film in Japan, but t

Hector Rodriguez was an experienced truck driver in a safe neighborhood in the middle of the afterno

U.S. wastepaper exporters are crying foul over a decision by shipping lines in the westbound trans-P

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 11, '95 - Aug. 5, '96 (a graph)* An

Thailand and Myanmar opened the third meeting of a joint commission Monday to discuss bilateral coop

Shipping lines that call at the Port of Los Angeles won an important victory at the weekend in their

SHIPSTAIWAN'S MAIN PORTSREOPEN AFTER TYPHOONTAIPEI - Taiwan's main ports of Kaohsiun

With a nickname like the ''Bridge to Nowhere,'' it's no surprise that the Colombia Solidarity Intern

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A new semiconductor trade accord between the United States and Japan brings to an end the relationsh

When Chile first moved to privatize its state-owned industries in the 1970s, it did everything wrong

Having successfully fended off attacks from the United States and other trading partners, Canada is

The river Port of New Orleans, marking its 100th anniversary this year, is bursting at the seams aft

Aviation experts are getting a rising sense of deja vu as Congress and the White House scramble to r

Friday, Aug. 2, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

GATX PARTNERSHIPSORDER 23 BOEING JETSSEATTLE - Partnerships formed by GATX Capital Corp. hav

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

The U.S. dollar won't be getting a lift from interest rates in August, but it will rally back to 1.5

For the week ended July 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 11, '95 - Aug. 2, '96 (a graph)* An

Congress moved late Friday to revive a long-dormant program providing duty-free entry on thousands o

Willy Morgan, publisher of The Economist in North America, has been named publisher of The Journal o

The concept of ''degrees of separation'' suggests that each of us is separated from everyone else by

Boeing Co. is planning to remove hundreds of jobs from the machinists union's bargaining unit withou

A new worldwide drive against the production of counterfeit goods was launched in London last week b

JAPANESE BANKS MAKEINROADS IN MYANMARTOKYO - Major Japanese banks have moved to strengthen t

House Ways and Means trade subcommittee chairman Philip Crane, R-Ill., and other representatives pla

''The World Trade Center blast was just the exclamation point at the end of the sentence.''

Quincy Mayor James Sheets says this suburb's shipyard could receive approximately $5 million for mod

Three weeks ended July 27, 1996, vs. similar 1995 periodCars Cars Loaded Loaded

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Guy Martin, who manages one of Jamaica's leading apparel exporting companies, has more than garments