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For Twin Cities frequent fliers, the free lunch is over. And Northwest Airlines officials aren't hap

Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello this week signed a 14-point program designed to simplif

Florida's fruit, vegetable and sugar growers vowed to fight the North American free-trade agreement

UN LEAVES SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ INTACTUNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council de

The Danish merchant fleet expanded substantially last year as new ships ordered by Danish owners wer

The supply of power equipment for the world's largest hydroelectric undertaking seems likely to be d

Only a few months ago, talk of El Nino had many grain and soybean traders convinced this would be a

May 27, 1992 Copper Total, 29,835. Gold Total, .1,570,130.Silver Tota

JAPANESE IMPORTS UP FOR PLATINUM, SILVERJapanese imports of platinum rose to 20,275 kilogram

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An unlikely coalition of organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Nationa

As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host next week's global summit on cleaning up the Earth's environment,

The more things change in Myanmar, known as Burma until last year, the more things staythe same.

The Coast Guard has failed to justify a plan to replace its fleet of coastal buoy tenders, according

The European Community's top environment official announced Wednesday he would not attend the Earth

Free-trade agreements negotiated in the Americas will have to comply with guidelines established in

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France's biggest insurance company, the state-owned Union des Assurances de Paris (UAP), might becom

Opponents of a sweeping port reform bill managed to postpone for at least another week a final vote

The European Community faces moderate economic growth, falling inflation, rising unemployment and bi

SERBS REOPEN AIRPORT FOR EMERGENCY AIDBELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Serb irregular forces agreed to

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

Include Richard Field, Georgia Ports Authority trade development director, among those stunned last

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While the Bush administration considers opening traffic between U.S. ports to foreign-flag passenger

The Russian government is trying to head off an oil workers' strike that could bring the battered ec

California Gov. Pete Wilson proposed a six-point workers compensation plan he says can save Californ

HAMBURG PORT VOLUME ROSE 2.1 PERCENT IN QUARTERHAMBURG, Germany - First-quarter carg

A former president of the longshoremen's local in Tacoma will be sworn in on June 4 as a Tacoma port

Many yellow crates of shrimp destined for the best seafood restaurants in the U.S. Southeast begin t

The Bush administration is preparing to offer a package of "green language" proposals in the North A

The bogeyman of the transportation industry is back. Oil prices, which had been gradually tr

Quotations, provided by Citibank/New York, Foreign Exchange Desk, are offered rates of New York City

The European Commission Wednesday told car manufacturers to comply with new rules to open up the com

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

A white paper issued by the Japan Environment Agency warns that the country is rapidly running out o

Russia is seeking to halt a catastrophic decline in oil production that has starved the economy of f

SUGAR FUTURES CLIMB TO CONTRACT HIGHSSugar futures rose sharply in a short-covering rally th

Japan issued its annual white paper on environmental policy Tuesday - one week before the Earth Summ