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While small business health insurance rates have jumped 155 percent in the last seven years, costs f

As of May 21, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

Bumper Argentine 1990-91 (September-August) corn yields continued, as widespread rains slowed harves

New Jersey's trading relationship with Mexico will grow in the next few months, as the state works

American wheat farmers could be required to idle only 5 percent or less of their 1992 acreage, down

European Community countries are likely to produce a record 13.56 million metric tons of oilseeds in

A dispute with a utility company has put a small California port's effort to deepen its shipping cha

A United Nations shipment of food to Kurdish refugees is sitting idle in Egypt after being turned ba

A House subcommittee will examine cruise vessel safety issues next week during a hearing on Coast Gu

EXPORTS NOW!! - when it comes to automation. That's what maritime executives are calling for from bo

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ASSOCIATED AIR FREIGHT INC. (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) - Michael Occhicone was named vice president of fi

The U.S. dollar declined Monday after attempts to continue Friday's rally failed. Monday aft

The U.S. maritime industry's best known annual award this year will be shared by Warren G. Leback, t

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The United States is in danger of losing market opportunities in the fastest- growing new segment of

The White House said Monday economic sanctions should remain on Iraq until Iraqi leader Saddam Husse

THE UNITED STATES this week celebrates World Trade Week, with the U.S. Department of Commerce antici

Brazil's 1991-92 (May-April) coffee crop may turn out to be somewhat larger than estimates earlier t

LACK OF STORAGE THREAT TO CHINESE HARVESTBEIJING - A severe lack of storage facilities threa

COTTON FUTURES SURGED AGAIN last week, with the July contract reaching 92 cents a pound, a level las

The Hoechst Group reported first-quarter pretax profits of 829 million deutsche marks ($488 million)

Sedgwick Group Ltd. reported operating income of 169.2 million ($289.3 million) for the first three

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China is moving to join the global practice of electronic trade documentation, with its maritime fla

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The government plans to expand two of the country's four export processing zones and open up six ind

South Africa's government, reforming apartheid land laws, said Monday it would return at least some

Union members at the Chilean Copper Corp.'s (Codelco) largest mine division of Chuquicamata presente

As of May 20, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

New York Mercantile Exchange May 16, 1991*CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Mon., May 20, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Canadian tolls on the St. Lawrence Seaway are unlikely to be eliminated in the near future, accordin

Soviet government and trade union negotiators were locked in talks Monday in an 11th-hour attempt to

The story "Deficit With China Jumped 17 percent in March," on Page 1A of The Journal of Commerce, M

The Finnish mark should be linked to the European currency unit, Rolf Kullberg, director of the Finn

Nymex petroleum-product futures contracts are trading in a strange out-of- season pattern, with gaso

A growing number of oil market participants believe crude prices will stay weak for a prolonged peri

Australia's exports of liquefied natural gas to Japan this year will increase by almost 23 percent.<

The presidents of the five Andean Pact countries affirmed their commitment to create a free trade zo