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Japan is becoming increasingly aware of the need to be more forthcoming in dealing with the outside

Faint hopes for an end to the Arab economic boycott of Israel seem to have grown even fainter in rec

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* Trading With Germany 4A * IBM Seeks Taiwan Partners 4A* Tom Connors - Washington 8A

A dust storm sweeping through southwest Kansas Wednesday affected operations for at least one major

Swire Pacific Ltd., a diversified trading, retailing and transport house, posted a third straight ye

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., the port-to-drugstore conglomerate of entrepreneur Li Ka-shing, bucked the c

An aborted attempt by Federal Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to infiltrate the floor of majo

PARRIS TAKES OATH AS NEW SEAWAY CHIEFStan Parris, a former six-term Virginia congressman, to

MITSUI UNVEILS PLANS TO SELL PROPERTY STAKEMitsui & Co. of Japan said it would sell 49 perce

While the Treasury Department's proposal to remove ownership restrictions separating banking and ins

EC FUNDS WILL AID EAST GERMAN STATESFRANKFURT, Germany - The European Community will donate

Hungary's finance minister Wednesday said his country plans to complete its switch to a market econo

CHINA WANTS FINAL OK IN TAIWAN-GATT MOVEChinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen said Wednesday

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

New York Mercantile Exchange Mar. 26, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

British government officials are unhappy with a decision by a European Community research consortium

Mexico maybe on the verge of permitting coffee imports this year, according to industry sources, wit

The Maritime Administration is considering applications to sell two general cargo ships, the Santa A

Taiwan may be the next buyer to shun the U.S. soybean export market in favor of lower prices in Sout

As the city of San Francisco breaks ground on the first extension of its Bay Area Rapid Transit syst

GASOLINE PRICES FALL PRIOR TO EASTER HOLIDAYORLANDO, Fla. - The nationwide average price for

The Insurance Services Office reached an out-of-court settlement in a mammoth antitrust lawsuit brou

Criticism of the U.K. government by a former cabinet member has intensified political worries and da

The Coast Guard withdrew a proposal to allow the use of many different types of private electronic a

Pirates attacked a medium-size tanker in open seas off the coast of Indonesia early Monday morning,

By filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the executives who run Midway Airlines Inc. took a c

Prospects for the United States, Canada and Mexico to form a single North American market will be th

American farmers could preserve the environment, increase productivity and save money for the taxpay

Delays in the processing and handling of hard wheat, oilseed products and other grain continued Wedn

Malaysia is hoping its long-running privatization program will draw more private capital to finance

U.S. gasoline inventories fell by 4.6 million barrels during the week ended March 22 compared with t

America's largest computer company plans to invest capital and manpower here to help develop the isl

The U.S. economy shrank at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the final quarter of 1990, the government sa

Growth in exports of garments from the Philippines slowed sharply in the first quarter compared with

California importers could get a double hit April 1 when the federal and state agricultural departme