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Cruise-ship executives said a new Puerto Rico Treasury Department ruling that ends the industry's ex

Iraq may have gotten around a cash squeeze caused by the United Nations oil export embargo by secret

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May 27, 1992 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid-

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,200-$1,300per ton lots & in

May 28, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Russian copper exports are beginning to arrive more freely this month after severe disruptions in th

Wednesday May 27, 1992 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

The drought that dried up much of the Midwest during the late 1980s is still keeping water levels on

HONDURAN PRESIDENT HITS EC BANANA PLANTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Latin American countries could

As of May 26, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

W. James Amoss, chairman and chief executive officer of Lykes Brothers Steamship Co., and John Bower

Most of France's major ports were paralyzed Tuesday as dockers staged a 24- hour strike to protest a

There will be sufficient shiploading capacity at U.S. seaports to handle even the most optimistic es

China's leading private computer company, Stone Group, plans to go public soon and expand its operat

Frank Shrontz, chairman of Boeing Co., will be honored Thursday evening by the United Nations Associ

TNT Ltd., the Australian transport giant, plans to establish trucking operations in China by the end

The European Commission began negotiations with Romania on an association accord that would pave the

Anti-American sentiment is growing here as trade negotiations with the United States continue in Was

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China will need to expand production of man-made fiber by as much as 35 percent a year through this

CUSTOMER-QUOTA PLAN MAY BE EASED IN MASS.The governing committee of Commonwealth Automobile

Skyrocketing medical expenses and excessive punitive damage awards continue to be leading business c

Japan regained its status as the world's largest creditor nation last year, edging out Germany with

Foreign-flag passenger ships would be allowed to carry passengers between U.S. ports for the first t

The Bush administration, scrambling to come up with domestic programs this election year, thinks it'

A sharp drop in world aluminum prices, indirectly caused by the breakup of the Soviet Union, has hel

Rotterdam's bulk stevedores have stayed out of the headlines the past 12 months, as attention focuse

Demand for U.S. grain in the former Soviet republics doesn't mean much anymore. For, while d

A protest coalition that dogged a World Trade Day conference here caught the attention of Mexico's a

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World sugar production will exceed consumption by roughly 2.44 million metric tons in the September

Hot, dry forecasts, along with constructive reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 1

Sergei Shakhrai, until recently one of Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin's closest advisers, accuse

User fees and environmentally based charges will cost the world's airlines nearly $10 billion annual

Owners of good-quality ships now can negotiate cheaper insurance premiums than those operating subst

Bulk shipping, buoyed by relatively strong economies in Japan and Europe, avoided much of the chill

As many as 1,000 more businesses in Hungary may be forced into bankruptcy and 20 percent of the work