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The first potatoes from this year's crop at the Kokino State Farm went to Maria Anikonova. O

REGIONAL BLOCS Caribbean Basin Trade & Investment Facilitating Entities. Dec. 2. Washington,

A wave of violent student protests and public talk of a coup against the government of President Car

The global credit crunch is hampering the growth of world trade, but alternative financing methods a

When it comes to exports, there's no business like sure business. Painful as that may be to

With apologies to Aristide Briand, who told David Lloyd George in World War I that war is much too s

The 1992 outlook for the U.S. marine underwriting industry is bleak on the surface, but if the indus

U.S. and European insurers said they have made substantial progress toward an agreement on future co

New decrees signed by Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin last week to lift foreign trade restriction

The United States will continue textile and apparel quotas for China even if a deal is struck to pha

A heated internal political debate in Moscow is preventing the city's ambitious plans to privatize m

Treuhandanstalt, the German government agency charged with privatizing former East German companies,

Airborne Express executives say their low-budget overseas operating strategy outsmarts Federal Expre

Rinker Materials Corp. and the Port Everglades Authority have agreed on a new 20-year lease calling

The organizers of Singapore's new rubber futures exchange hope the market will start trading from Ap

Observers expect a major political "war" this week as the Massachusetts Legislature debates drastica

The Russian Federation parliament said Friday it was taking over control of the Soviet State Bank (G

Nov. 22, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Asia is the fastest-growing market in the world. Although this is not radical thinking, the implicat

It takes a big plane to transport project cargo, and few are up to the job. Project cargo, o

HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TRANSPORTATION, Nov. 27-28. Saddle Brook, N.J. Contact: Unz & Co., (800) 631-3098

In a world where bigger means better, small brokers have lost the bulk of their small parcel busines

Shipping companies, airlines and trade associations are banding together to fight a proposed fuel ta

COMPTON TO SUCCEED AETNA CHAIRMAN LYNNHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Life & Casualty announced that

Sears, Roebuck and Co. has signed on with a subsidiary of ConsolidatedFreightways Inc.in an

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

Are low labor costs a major factor when U.S. corporations invest overseas? Yes and no - depe

Nov. 22, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Despite the continued deadlock between Brussels and Washington over agriculture in the Uruguay Round

Senate-House highway bill negotiators met round-the-clock last weekend as congressional leaders exer

The state of Illinois adopted rules that tighten entry requirements for transport firms looking to o

The legal battle between Midway Airlines and Northwest Airlines took a new twist late last week as t

CREW CONSIST PACTS RATIFIED IN VIRGINIANORFOLK, Va. - Crew consist agreements have been rati

The two professional organizations representing Canada's customs brokers have merged into a single u

EXPLOSION DISRUPTS ARMENIAN GAS SUPPLYAn explosion in South Ossetia disrupted a pipeline thr

Nov. 22, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 214.96 off 0.33 which compares

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago11/22 11/21 Change % Change: 10/2

Proyectos de Aysen SA of Chile and Noranda Aluminum Inc. said they have reached an agreement to deve

SWAZIS HALT EXPORTS OF SUGAR VIA MAPUTOJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Swaziland has halted all