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European shippers' leaders today embark on two days of talks here to coordinate strategy in their lo

Canada has won a trade dispute with the United States over U.S. treatment of Canadian beer imports.<

Feb. 11, 1992 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

German carmaker Volkswagen AG breathed life into the EC's moribund Social Charter by signing an agre

The Romanian oil industry, after being closed to most foreign investment for decades, is trying to a

Legal problems, debt and high energy costs could delay the privatization of Peruvian state-owned Min

As of Feb. 11, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

Moody's Investors Service cut its rating of California's credit-worthiness, dropping the state's bon

The biggest lawsuit in the 300-year history of Lloyd's of London has resulted in a $208 million (UK1

Twenty-one countries, led by the United States, have agreed to commit $1.25 billion to a new fund to

It's a sad fact that American commercial shipbuilders are widely regarded as ridiculously expensive,

Tuesday Feb. 11, 1992 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

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For the third straight year, Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District received the certificate of a

British Airways Tuesday announced a net profit of $415 million (UK222 million) for the fiscal third

The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched a pilot program to help small exporters in Calif

A New York trading company that last month unveiled a way for charitable Americans to get chicken an

United Parcel Service has expanded its natural gas fuel program. This time, the Atlanta-base

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

The United States will cut the quota for textile imports from Taiwan by 6.5 percent, Taiwan official

The fragile state of emerging market-based economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union h

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

President Bush, trying to quash a controversy over statements by his vice president and a Republican

Almost half of the world climate scientists surveyed in a poll say the greenhouse effect, caused by

Feb. 11, 1992 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The French insurance concern AXA has entered the Israeli property/casualty insurance market. But whe

In the last few months, ocean carriers have had a harder time meeting their shipping schedules, acco

U.S. copper industry executives here for the annual Copper Club dinner here believe prices for the r

WHEAT FUTURES MARKET FALLS BACK FROM HIGHSCHICAGO - The wheat futures market was sha

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

EMERY WORLDWIDE (Palo Alto, Calif.) - Vincent F. Gallagher was appointed director of pharmaceutical

Two conflicting operating philosophies have emerged in the highly competitive ocean shipping trade b

Canadian government policies have brought Canada's railways close to a ''meltdown" condition, accord

Airline stocks rose Tuesday on Monday's news that UAL Corp. will cut capital spending, a move expect

BRAZIL CLEARS IMPORTING OF MORE PRODUCTSSAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil authorized the im

Greek officials are hoping that new legislation will streamline, speed and expand the privatization

New York Mercantile Exchange Feb. 10, 1992CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Japan's beef consumption will continue to rise this year, and domestic slaughter and imports are exp

Indonesia's first fully integrated polyethylene and polypropylene production facility will use Union