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Garment experts are forecasting strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region, though they warn that U.S.

SOVIET OIL MINISTRY PROPOSES JOINING OPECThe Soviet oil industry ministry sent a proposal to

The nation's gasoline stations have launched their annual battle to lure summer motorists, offering

Henry Kaiser knew how to build dams. He didn't know how to build ships. But in the early 194

US INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT POSTS 0.5 PERCENT INCREASEWASHINGTON - Industrial production rose 0.5 p

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., despite recent poor times and the continuing soft economies in some mai

Procter & Gamble Co. and the Eczacibasi Group will jointly market oral care products in Turkey, acco

An odd couple of sorts - platinum refiners and natural gas distributors - is heralding the commercia

For the second year in a row, the 11 Japanese automakers sent buying teams to the United States to m

June 14, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Aluminum ingots- $1,220-$1,230 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

For the week ended June 8, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

A special U.S.-Canada panel Friday ruled against U.S. pork producers and let stand an earlier bilate

A RATHER INTERESTING FOOTNOTE to last week's F.O. Licht world sugar estimates was the higher global

Massive Western aid for the Soviet Union would be used primarily to finance imports in the first sta

Two rapidly developing Southeast Asian countries are girding for another battle to retain duty-free

VOTE ON TRANSPORT BILL DELAYED IN SENATESenate Majority Leader George Mitchell said final pa

Jagdish N. Bhagwati couldn't resist the challenge when he was asked in May to help kick-start the sp

Hungary's biggest banks, which have grown used to large profits in an economy somewhere between free

Eva Airways will be allowed to begin regional services this summer as planned, putting to rest doubt

The 18th century British poet Alexander Pope inspired the title of Jagdish N. Bhagwati's forthcoming

EC AGREES TO BAN SOME FUR IMPORTSThe European Community, ignoring U.S. and Canadian demands

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

What makes countertrade work is socks that don't match and markets where it doesn't always matter.

A Purchase, N.Y., financial group wants the Massachusetts Insurance Division to approve its purchase

International Petroleum Exchange June 14, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Concerned over the possibility of lost export sales to China, a coalition of 18 U.S. farm groups Fri

Shipping lanes in the northern Persian Gulf leading to Kuwait will be cleared of mines sown by Iraq

China exported its first domestically designed and constructed oil tanker, according to Xinhua news

Adm. James F. McNulty will retire Oct. 1 as superintendent of the three-yearcollege, run by

A recent restructuring among North Atlantic container shipping lines might provide the foundations f

Airlines throughout the world will need 9,000 new airliners to cope with a doubling of air traffic o

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills said she is impressed by a congressional proposal to link exte

Two competing energy companies say they want to build natural gas-fired power plants in a Port of Ta

NORTHWEST INTERESTED IN BUYING QANTAS STAKESYDNEY, Australia - Northwest Airlines is interes

THE OCEAN FUTURES MARKET followed the sequence of events predicted here two weeks ago, moving up to

COAST GUARD PROBING GLOUCESTER SHIP MISHAPCoast Guard officials are trying to ascertain why

Dockworkers at the soybean port of Rio Grande on Friday accepted a wage offer and voted to return to

Consumer and environment lobby groups last week said they would refuse to back a planned European Co