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With a two-week perspective, overseas executives said they liked China's latest round of foreign exc

Thursday, March 14, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

Representatives of the Teamsters union, meeting here Tuesday, announced plans for a publicity campai

The U.S. dollar followed bond prices higher Thursday, on news of an unexpected decline in February p

Norway's central bank cut its inflation forecast for 1996 to 1.25 percent from 2 percent previously.

Freightliner Corp. kept up a strong pace of deliveries in the heavy-truck industry in February as ma

Singapore's manufacturing output in January surged 25.8 percent from a year earlier, the Economic De

Germany's first-quarter gross domestic product is likely to fall a seasonally and calendar-adjusted

A report on shipping reform to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is drawing

Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Mar. 14, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%B

Mar. 14, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150 per ton lots

Mar. 14, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

New York Mercantile Exchange - Mar. 14, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

International Petroleum ExchangeMar. 14, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

TACOMA AWARDS FLETCHERCRANE RAIL CONTRACTTACOMA, Wash. - The Port of Tacoma awarded a $1.2 m

The 15,319-deadweight-ton Al Johffa, which sustained a cracked hull when it hit rocks on Feb. 13 whi

The state of California will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a recent state court decision invalida

The Hong Kong government plans to crack down harder on Chinese pirated products, said Denise Yue, Ho

A freight forwarding education program designed to promote professional competence and improve the i

INDIA TO LIFT CURBSON CONSUMER IMPORTSBOMBAY - India will remove all curbs on consum

Less developed countries, despite the Mexican financial crisis, last year attracted a record $167 bi

A coalition of foreign lamb suppliers and U.S. textile importers could be battling the U.S. governme

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Six decades of agriculture policy may have come to an end when Congress voted to overhaul farm subsi

The European Commission wants to improve the competitiveness of Europe's shipping and maritime indus

More than a century after a German immigrant first brewed it in St. Louis, the world's top-selling b

The Iron Highway - CSX Corp.'s effort to crack potentially lucrative short-haul intermodal markets -

Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM), Mexico's largest steamship line, has again teamed up with St

A federal appellate court has struck a blow for importers against unwarranted and costly snooping by

Hong Kong trade carried by ship slipped a tad last year, to 49 percent from 50 percent, but the valu

Mexican Commerce Secretary Herminio Blanco has formally asked that his country be included in bilate

A government adviser has recommended that the best place for a third international airport for the P

''Imagine a salesperson you can actually trust.''

The push to open a third east-west rail corridor for intermodal cargoes crossing Washington state is

RIPPLES SPREADFROM GM STRIKEDETROIT - The effects of a 10-day strike of 3,000 workers at two

US, CHINA TO DISCUSSINTELLECTUAL PIRACYWASHINGTON - The United States and China in early Apr