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China is borrowing heavily from international lenders to finance its campaign to produce more high-q

Friday Jan. 31, 1992 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Trucking executives in California will share ideas on maintaining profitability during the current e

A fire and a simple flat tire that destroyed Japan's experimental magnetic levitation train last yea

International Monetary Fund approval last week of a Brazilian economic reform program could free som

Computers are telling cargo where to go. If ever there was an application custom-made for th

DUNKEL FAILS TO BREAK US-EC TRADE IMPASSEGENEVA - General Agreement on Tariff and Tr

Mexico plans to spend $14 billion to improve its highways, railroads, maritime and port facilities,

The British government will seek a trade-liberalization agreement between Russia and the European Co

Six specially bred sheep arrived in Warsaw earlier this month to open a trade door that had been lon

MARITIME ADMINISTRATION (Washington, D.C.) - Nan Harllee, a longtime Marad employee, was named the a

New York Mercantile Exchange Jan. 29, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

PROPOSAL BOOSTS EPA OPERATING FUND BUDGETPresident Bush's proposed $7 billion budget for the

Continued strength in Indonesian coffee prices is forcing Japanese and other Asian buyers to differe

CHILE EXPECTS PASSAGE OF COPPER MINING LAWSANTIAGO, Chile - The Chilean government was confi

Brazil does not see any kind of International Cocoa Agreement involving economic clauses as desirabl

Responding to the American appetite for good-tasting diet foods, National Starch and Chemical Co. is

For the first time, shipping lines are getting ready to step into the dispute tearing apart one of t

A complaint by a German freight forwarder alleges that unfair rates charged by a group of U.S. ocean

Orders for expensive durable goods fell sharply in December after two months of gains, the Commerce

THE VENERABLE LLOYD'S OF LONDON has broken with tradition by peering into the looking glass.

Canada is hosting its largest ever foreign trade show here this week, in hopes that the event will s

Germany intercepted a German vessel in the Mediterranean Thursday with an illegal Syrian-bound cargo

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The governor of Russia's Tyumen region told leaders of U.S. oil companies Thursday that he would pre

A senior European Community commission official this week accused the United States of "playing with

Delays by Western banks in approving a European Community-guaranteed food aid loan worth US$644.5 mi

Claude McGavic, longtime director of the Manatee County Port Authority in Florida, denied his resign

The negotiations for a North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) remain in ''overdrive," though a

With fourth-quarter earnings for United Airlines weaker than some analysts expected, executives at B

President Bush has asked the four agencies that regulate transport to join his latest effort to redu

DOT WANTS TO ACT ON MARINE POLLUTANTSWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportat

UK'S JAPAN INVESTORS MAY SHIFT TO CONTINENTLONDON - Britain may gradually lose its d

Cuba's authorities, which for 30 years have maintained low, subsidized prices for basic food items,

Jan. 30, 1992 Copper Total, 35,225. Gold Total, .1,362,596.Silver Total, .269

Insurance broker Alexander & Alexander Services found itself on the wrong list Wednesday, when it wa

The U.S. dollar was trading broadly higher early Thursday afternoon, despite very weak economic numb

Britain's state-backed export credit insurer said Thursday it had heavily boosted reserves against c

Transportation is the main topic of an annual coal business conference taking place here this week,

PAKISTAN TURNS AWAY FROM US WHEATWASHINGTON - Pakistan is turning to non-U.S. source