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InterAfrican Coffee Organization producers have agreed on a plan to retain 20 percent of exports tha

China will open a new comprehensive futures exchange in November in an attempt to unify the country'

There's no glass ceiling for women executives at Degree of Honor Protective Association, the St. Pau

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is so fed up with importers of art material who violate

This should be a banner year for the domestic plastics industry, according to a recent study done by

Maersk Inc. opened an office in Kansas City, Kan., Sunday to provide sales coverage for Kansas, Miss

China has issued new rules to cool down its booming real estate market that will sharply limit build

Japan's largest business federation will stop making cash gifts to politicians and their parties and

Large world wheat stocks and a fight among wheat exporting nations for wheat sales in a market suffe

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 16, 1993Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen Hi

The Food and Drug Administration has given Schering-Plough Corp. permission for the marketing of Imd

Libya spurned a Western deadline to surrender two airliner bomb suspects by Oct. 1, apparently ready

As of Aug. 16, 1993 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

INSURERS MORE OFTEN PAYING POLLUTION COSTSEXTON, Pa. - An expanding environmental insurance

A Chinese cargo ship accused by Washington of carrying banned chemical weapons additives for Iran ha

While maritime interests have tried to downplay a vice presidential staff proposal to deregulate the

Lufthansa German Airlines vehemently attacked Northwest Airlines Monday for the U.S. company's effor

The Canadian federal government must convince Canada's 10 provinces to accept agreements on labor an

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York, are selling rates among trading

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Aug. 16, 1993 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

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Indonesia on Monday introduced two-month-long visa-free stays to business visitors from 45 countries

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION Percent change July JuneManufacturing +0.2% -0.

A former branch manager for TNT Express Worldwide and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissi

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

As losses rocket in China's coal mines, officials say 140,000 workers will lose their jobs this year

The state-run Hindustan Copper Ltd. (HCL) is seeking government permission to expand its Khetri copp

INDIA PLANS COAL OUTPUT OF 249 MILLION TONSNEW DELHI, India - India aims to produce

Coffee prices rose sharply in late Monday trading following reports of an agreement by African coffe

Dynair Technologies of Reston, Va., plans to build a new air cargo center in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Monday, Aug. 16, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Gulf States Toyota plans to move its car-processing operations out of the Port of Houston and into a

CARRIERS CONTAINER COUNCIL INC. (Jersey City, N.J.) - James W. McIntire Jr. was appointed director o

Two leading New York bond-rating agencies gave the Port of Los Angeles their highest ratings, confir

The U.S. dollar fell Monday, hitting another record low against the Japanese yen of 100.85 in overse

Despite new weekend rains over parts of the Midwest, the Mississippi River at St. Louis dropped enou

Continental Airlines Inc. on Monday said that, as part of ongoing cost- cutting measures, it will cu

Wage increases in Malaysia are outstripping gains in productivity and could jeopardize the fast-grow