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The United Arab Emirates Monday imposed a unified 4 percent customs tariff as a prelude to unified P

Hundreds of hoodlums looted shops and chased police with machetes in Lagos on Monday. The ri

China may need to import up to 1 million metric tons of long-grain rice to offset losses caused by f

Minnesota Mutual just got a new chief executive: Robert Senkler, 41, a 20- year company veteran who

Panama should avoid turning the Panama Canal into a profit-making venture when it takes control of t

With its network straining under the weight of traffic surges 21 percent ahead of 1993,Consolidated

The Clinton administration's decision to use U.S. troops to secure the airport in the capital city o

AKRON BARBERTON CLUSTER RAILWAY (Akron, Ohio) - William E. Frey was named president of this new term

The strike by 1,100 members of the United Transportation Union against the Soo Line Railroad unit of

Vietnam Railways plans to upgrade its services to attract more foreign tourists and is negotiating w

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

Canadian business circles are taking aim at what they say are "restrictive" elements in a draft of t

COMMERCE: STEEL BARS NOT PRICED FAIRLY IN USSuppliers from Brazil, India, Italy, Japan and S

South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said Monday it reserved the right to call for a nationw

The U.S. Navy has commissioned its first double-hulled oiler, the USNS Patuxent. The craft w

Japan's socialist-led coalition government has decided 1 to restrain growth in defense and some oper

FROM THE UNITED STATES/CANADA JAPAN. Sept. 1-9. The U.S. Department of Commerce is leading t

For three weeks, the tire industry has been rolling along like steel-beltedradials on a fres

SHELL UNIT TO EXPLORE FOR OIL IN TRANSYLVANIABUCHAREST, Romania - A unit of Royal Du

The credit quality of many European banks is likely to come under stress in the next few years and s

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Western and Asian oil prospectors in the rough seas off southeastern Vietnam are again hopeful.<

A syndicate of 11 Japanese and European banks will extend a $193 million loan to China to help finan

Aug. 1, 1994 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the e

The largest wholesaler of fresh produce on the world, the Rungis market located just south of Paris,

Keeping the United Nations forces armed, fed and supplied with relief and humanitarian aid for the c

India's official wholesale price index for all commodities for the week of July 10-16 rose 10.34 per

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 233.65 up 1.45 whi

The U.K.'s Abbey National Bank announced Monday the formation of a joint venture with major insurer

CIGNA SEES INCREASE IN OPERATING INCOMEPHILADELPHIA - Cigna Corp. Monday reported se

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SUEZ CANAL AGENCY PLANS TOLL REDUCTIONSISMAILIA, Egypt - The Suez Canal Authority pl

These log and lumber movements were the largest recorded from port documents, during the two weeks e

Environmentalists got a first look Monday at a proposal to dump dioxin- contaminated harbor muck int

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Northwest Airlines should have no problem filling belly space on its 747-200s when thecarrier starts

A shake-up that has brought down several senior executives at Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. over the las

Australia is experiencing a hidden investment boom that is not showing up in gloomy gross domestic p