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A White House impasse is threatening a 17-year-old U.S. program providing duty-free benefits for tho

The European Community expressed doubts Tuesday that Japan's $117 billion economic stimulus plan wil

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Rhone-Poulenc's decision to temporarily halt most of its production at its textiles factory in north

A key congressman is exploring whether the government can legally take away control of the U.S. righ

A leading marine hull and liability insurer is calling for new, strict rules for cargo owners.

State and local officials Tuesday urged Congress to remove barriers that they claim prevent them fro

Burlington Northern Railroad's new intermodal management team has an ambitious target: turning a pro

The world's leading air express companies Tuesday welcomed the EuropeanCommission's decision

Accelerating intermodal transportation growth is shining a hot spotlight on intermodalvendors' effor

A sudden election call by the Nova Scotia government has delayed the introduction of draft legislati

IRS AUDITS US UNITS OF JAPAN BANKSTOKYO - The Internal Revenue Service is auditing t

The expansion of free-trade policies in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and other developing r

The central banks of China and South Korea have agreed to open branches in each other's countries, t

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Sitting through the orientation session for an upcoming trip to Russia, I felt as if I were being pr

The worst flooding since 1973 hit the upper Mississippi River this week and shut down barge traffic

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,150-$1,250per ton lots &

Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co., a Midland, Texas, oil and gas producer, scored a $115 million victor

Russian President Boris Yeltsin approved a partial sell-off of LUK Oil, the Russian state-owned oil

The threat to the United Kingdom coal mining industry from natural gas was underlined Monday when U.

Copper prices tumbled in trading here Tuesday after coming under pressurefrom further bouts

The Clinton administration's proposal for a $700 million package of food aid for Russia is likely to

Shareholders of Eli Lilly and Co. shot down proposals Monday asking the company to provide more drug

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Independent insurance agents are claiming a major victory following Tuesday's ruling by the U.S. Sup

A federal district court judge in Delaware has spared Millers Mutual Insurance Co. of Wilmington, De

Consolidated Freightways Inc. reported substantially improved first-quarter 1993 net income of $8.3

The-less-than glamorous procedures for interchanging equipment between the truck and rail modes are

Southern California ports are in agreement over the purchase price of Southern Pacific Lines track n

There was bad news and good news when China's State Statistics Bureau made its quarterly report Mond

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

Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday Poland's economic and political reforms were an example for othe

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French industrial production, excluding construction and public works, rose a preliminary 2.5 percen

Apr. 20, 1993 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Gov. Pete Wilson of California, in his first major policy address regarding the proposed North Ameri

Despite a new vessel-sharing arrangement with Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line) for an Asia, Europe and

If containership lines aren't promised annual offsetting subsidies of "at least" $2.5 million a ship

A $700 million food aid package promised to Russia by President Clinton last month in Vancouver, Bri