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An Indiana company that is building a used-tire recycling plant is negotiating with railroads to dev

Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu will press for prompt action to reduce the massive U.S. fiscal

The Coast Guard waited five weeks before inspecting the scene of the worst U.S. merchant marine acci

Brazil said Tuesday that a decision by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to block a $350 mi

MANUFACTURING PROFITS FELL IN FOURTH QUARTERAfter-tax profits of U.S. manufacturers fell to

Although Orien Ventures is currently putting together a fund that plans to use U.S. capital and know

BIG FRENCH BANK SIGNS CREDIT PACT WITH IRANFrance's major state-owned bank, Banque Nationale

Soviet authorities slashed the tourist exchange rate for convertible currencies nearly fivefold on W

Taiwan is to allow more indirect investment in China but will only partially open its market for sem

Australia has adopted an unprecedented trade liberalization policy to make its commodities, particul

The Port of Oakland will increase the rates it charges ship lines unloading goods at its docks by 8.

State officials are offering United Airlines hefty tax incentives in an effort to persuade the carri

Supreme Court decisions on maritime matters this term seem more prominent than in a long time. The c

U.K. multi-lines insurer Sun Alliance Group PLC announced a 1990 pretax loss of 180.9 million ($320

The National Association of Suggestion Systems has a suggestion for U.S. employers: Ask your employe

Aluminum ingots- $1,420-$1,430 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

As of Apr. 3, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was expected to meet with coal miners' leaders Wednesday to tr

For Julius Katz, deputy U.S. trade representative and a key negotiator for a proposed U.S.-Mexico fr

The Federal Reserve could lower interest rates again, possibly as soon as Friday, if the March U.S.

The number of foreign investment registrations in the six former East bloc economies increased fourf

The end of the gulf war could stimulate overseas demand for jewelry, especially in the United States

''Depth Limitation to Cut New Orleans Container Traffic," a story on Page 1B of The Journal of Comme

CHEVRON TO CLOSE ALASKA REFINERYChevron U.S.A. Inc. will close its refinery at Nikiski, Alas

In the wake of the worst U.S. merchant marine accident in eight years, the shipping company involved

The Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Underwriting Association, says it won't need a premium hike fo

New Jersey, here we come! More than 1,200 employees will move from their Metropolitan Life Insurance

The U.S. trade deficit with Japan was $41.1 billion last year, down 19 percent from 1989. Japan is t

Taiwanese grain buyers are cautious about their first purchases of Argentine soybeans in many years

A unit of Taiwan's Evergreen Group ordered three new containerships that will replace smaller ships

There will be little substantive discussion of trade issues at a meeting today between President Bus

Poland does not want to risk threatening the Soviet Union by joining a European security system that

Although the Indian cotton advisory board has again reduced its estimate of 1990 cotton output, an a

Further changes are in store at Hong Kong's containerport, in part, it's believed, because of unease

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 6.7 million barrels during the week ended March 29 compared with

The Federal Maritime Commission indefinitely suspended a requirement in interim freight consolidator

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