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OVERVIEW: Kansai, the area hit by Tuesday's earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale, is Japan's secon

Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Food, cosmetics, electrical appliances and oil products are the chief targets in a new campaign agai

The following product classifications refer to the first two digits of HS tariff codes as published

A statewide campaign to educate people about the dangers of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly comes to Fre

China is expected to overtake the United States as the world's biggest market for pagers thanks to e

HUNGARY FINES P&G UNIT FOR FLUORIDE CLAIMBUDAPEST, Hungary - The Hungarian Competiti

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A move in the Alaska Legislature to regulate state pilots by setting their fees and limiting the num

FOREIGN FUNDS SOUGHT FOR CHINA PORT UPGRADESBEIJING - China, stretched by its boomin

Australia's drought-stricken sorghum production is under threat from a potential mice plague in sout

The traditional seaport that focused primarily on generating jobs and promoting regional economic de

Barely two weeks in office, Brazil's new government is being forced by Mexico's peso crisis to rethi

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 14, '94 - Dec. 23, '94 (a graph) (2

Strengthened by new highs for cotton, scrap steel, aluminum and rubber, The Journal of Commerce Indu

The U.S. dollar rose against the yen Tuesday, after a major earthquake struck western Japan, but the

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China's economic and technical development areas, frequently overlooked in favor of boom cities and

NORTH AMERICA The ABCs of Exporting. Jan. 18. Stockton, Calif. Contact: Jean Shaeffer or Jea

Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, pledged to fight more cuts in farm

International Petroleum Exchange Jan. 17, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

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In stark contrast to booming traffic at Europe's non-French northern ports, general traffic stagnate

It's all coming down. By the end of April the Port of Tacoma's unique X-ray cargo inspection facilit

ALEXANDER CONSULTING GROUP INC. (Lyndhurst, N.J.) - Robert K. Burden has been appointed executive vi

CNA FINANCIAL TO BUY SUBSIDIARY OF A&ACHICAGO - CNA Financial Corp. signed a definit

Like Deion Sanders, arguably the National Football League's best defensive player, Thomas Donohue of

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Russia has officially ended controls on oil exports but industry experts say that, even without the

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

A. Schulman, the Fairlawn supplier of plastic compounds and resins, has agreed to purchase the compo

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 232.96 off 0.22 wh

CHEVRON UNIT, CLARK CALL OFF REFINERY DEALNEW YORK - Chevron U.S.A. Products Co. and

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Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise company, will keep on growing. Carnival placed a

The Port of Hamilton, on Lake Ontario, reported a 2.5 percent increase in traffic in 1994, reflectin

If initial figures for Lufthansa Cargo AG are any measure, Germany's export boom hasn't bottomed out

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Interstate CommerceCommission ruling tha

General Electric Co. has released a Federal Aviation Administration report that it said reaffirms th