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Faced with the prospect that the Republican-led House will try to eliminate the Federal Maritime Com

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Changes in world trading patterns point to the need for closer cooperation among countries in Southe

Despite administration claims that maritime subsidy legislation will pass this year, members of Cong

Six weeks before the groundbreaking for a joint intermodal terminal for the Chicago area, developers

The Port of Miami was beset with labor unrest last week as striking independent truckers protested l

Friday Feb. 17, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

An upstate New York utility is asking federal regulators to allow it to abandon two independent powe

As of Feb. 17, 1995 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained

The Internet, that ubiquitous global web of interconnected computers, continues to sprout new tentac

The International Petroleum Exchange has announced details of the amendments to be made to the unlea

The Fiji government hopes to lure up to 28,000 Hong Kong-Chinese business migrants to these tropical

Rufus Yerxa, a top trade official in the Clinton and Bush administrations, will join the law firm of

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

A plan to create a new commission to oversee marine pilots was shelved in favor of a cooperative agr

For the week ended Feb. 11, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

The United States and Canada will formally sign a long-awaited, liberalized bilateral air agreement

Whether called code-calling or unanswered dialing, call-back services thatallow overseas cal

Exporters of commodities that move at low freight rates are complaining that in the aftermath of the

Italian industrial sales rose at an annual rate of 13 percent in November, and new orders advanced a

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is testing an electronic rate and form filing sy

The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association's 10th Annual Informex Custom Chemical Trad

The Federal Railroad Administration and the Association of American Railroads have signed a revised

Swiss watch exports in 1994 grew by 4.9 percent in value terms to 7.95 billion Swiss francs (US$6 bi

Nobody has anything kind to say about the U.S. dollar. "It's darkest before the dawn," was t

Ford Motor Co. remains determined to expand in the China market, despite the current threat of a tra

"Long-term protectionist barriers will not improve the competitiveness of the European film and tele

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

The latest Cass Logistics Inc. freight index shows that transport industry activity is continuing to

North Korea may have diverted U.S.-supplied heavy fuel oil to bolster its million-man army, the comm

Chemicals are the premier export industry for the United States, topping $50 billion for 1994, and t

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As in so much of East Asia, China remains the 500-pound gorilla of the chemical sector. And it's get

COSCO RESUMES PARTIAL SERVICE AT KOBETOKYO - China Ocean Shipping Co. said it resume

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

REGIONAL BLOCS How to Select and Evaluate the Export-Import Potential of Overseas Markets. F

The following business missions are scheduled for the coming months. The Journal of Commerce assumes

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