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NY-NJ TRADE ZONE HIT A RECORD FOR '94NEW YORK - The foreign-trade zone No. 49, which

The Noble Collection: A Work in Progress. Through spring. Staten Island, N.Y. New exhibition at the

TOTE PLANS 3RD SAILING BETWEEN WASH., ALASKASEATTLE - Totem Ocean Trailer Express, w

Wednesday, April 26, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

AMTRAK SLAMS CUSTOMS FOR DELAYING TRAINSSEATTLE - Amtrak officials are thinking abou

France's gross domestic product rose by a real, final 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 1994 from

Regional free-trade agreements do not threaten the stability of the international trading system. No

ROCKWELL TAPS BOEING TO MODIFY BOMBERSBoeing Co. has received a $110 million subcontract fro

NORTON CLAPP, 89, DIES; EX-WEYERHAEUSER HEADSEATTLE - Former Weyerhaeuser Co. Chairm

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

FELTRIM NAMES TAKE AGENTS TO COURTLONDON - Yet another court case involving Lloyd's

South Africa's official inflation rate finally ticked up into double digits in March after skirting

The Pacific Pintail, the British-registered ship carrying nuclear waste from France to Japan, docked

Houston is acquiring such a poor reputation as a high-risk discharge port that the world's largest i

Senior European officials flatly rejected a proposal by U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to esta

US, JAPAN TO EXTEND CAR TALKS AN EXTRA DAYTOKYO - Another round in the troubled Japa

Despite a dizzying plunge in world zinc supplies and expectations of record demand, analysts believe

Losses for the 1992 underwriting year at Lloyd's of London may be as little as UK150 million ($240 m

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

The Bank of New York has become the principal shareholder in a joint-venture firm whose business is

Wednesday Apr. 26, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

The European Commission said Wednesday it is investigating 40 pulp and paper producers in seven Euro

Illinois Central Corp. and its Illinois Central Railroad Co. subsidiary Tuesday announced a public o

China is taking its business to Africa, sending top government officials and trade missions to capit

Peter Sutherland, a fast-talking Irish lawyer who coaxed and bullied world leaders into history's bi

International Petroleum Exchange Apr. 26, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

To survive as a maritime nation, the United States must consider radical changes, including allowing

U.S. cotton data released Wednesday show that recent historically strong demand continued in March,

COLOMBIAN COFFEE OFFICIAL FEARS A LOW HARVESTBOGOTA, Colombia - If the 1994-95 coffee crop a

Standard & Poor's Corp. and Moody's Investors Service reacted negatively to Lincoln National Corp.'s

Despite a 5 percent hike in the policyholders' surplus to more than $190 billion, the insurance indu

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

Bilateral trade, energy investment and projected expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreemen

Norfolk Southern Corp., parlaying double-digit growth in merchandise and intermodal traffic, announc

IRAQ, RUSSIA SIGN OIL-GAS AGREEMENTBAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq and Russia have signed a dea

The Clinton administration began a trade-dispute proceeding against Mexico this week, after complain

After dissidents won a surprising election victory in the officers' division of a U.S. maritime unio

Mongolia's nomadic cattle herders say churning yak milk into Western-style cheese may be the solutio

The World Bank said it approved a $99 million loan for Russia to help combat one of the world's larg

Lloyd's of London took a fair old bashing in the British press over the weekend. In the latest wave