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If some Michigan manufacturers have their way, President Clinton's proposed energy tax will soon be

June 8, 1993 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

HAPAG-LLOYD (AMERICA) INC. (Staten Island, N.Y.) - William J. Keely, senior vice president, retired

Brazil's coffee growers, faced with free-market trade against a backdrop of persistently low prices,

Norwegian shipowners accused the Clinton administration of squandering vast sums of U.S. taxpayers'

The Coast Guard said it will oversee the removal of 135,000 gallons of hazardous sludge from the tan

Kirk Line Ltd. has replaced two small lift-on, lift-off vessels with three larger roll-on, roll-off

A Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry survey, released Tuesday, showed 42 percent

Kuwait signaled Tuesday it would no longer blacklist foreign firms doing business with Israel in a m

Senators here approved a bill late Monday to establish a Central Monetary Authority to replace the e

One of the least noticed - and most interesting - facts of last month's ill- fated presidential coup

Who says the boom in Latin America's economies can't go on forever? Certainly not the people

The primary concern for officials at Florida's leading containerports over the past two or three yea

U.S. barley farmers fear the anticipated surge in Canadian sales across the border, now that the Can

Cocoa producers and consumers are showing no sign of ending their four-month battle for market domin

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. has put in service the first group of new gondola cars recei

Before railroads were deregulated in 1980, there were a number of basic truths, whether or not they

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

The deflationary impact of the yen's recent gains alone won't likely prompt a discount-rate cut by t

Maritime interests in the San Francisco Bay Area are trying to secure statefunds to speed up

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An acrimonious fight over business from a shipping line consortium has broken out between the ports

European Community transport ministers Tuesday intervened in an antitrust probe of the controversial

A memorial service honoring Allen S. Roberts will be held in the chapel at The Seamen's Church Insti

A factory closing here and moving to Mexico. Same depressing tune. But like old songs, of love and l

George Soros, who sent the gold market soaring recently and raised the specter of inflation, is know

Japanese scientists have developed a catalyst for "lean-burn" car engines that can cut nitrogen oxid

ATLANTIC MUTUAL COS. (New York) - Edward K. Trowbridge, the long-time chairman and chief executive o

A former state legislator who had been considered the front-runner for Massachusetts insurance commi

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Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

Taiwan's American Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday it was withdrawing from its parent organization i

China and Croatia signed six documents including agreements on encouraging and protecting investment

Blaming Navy spending cuts and stiffening competition for commercial work, Norfolk Shipbuildiing & D

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is investigating complaints by a Pike County c

While Japan's copper demand is widely viewed to have hit bottom, industry sources here say any recov

The new French government's decision to privatize Air France will have little impact on the ongoing

Foreign investment to buy or create new businesses in the United States fell 47 percent in 1992 to t

The world cannot halt the AIDS epidemic yet and must concentrate on slowing it down, a top researche

DORMANN TO BECOME HOECHST CHAIRMANFRANKFURT, Germany - The supervisory board of Hoec