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The first three Mexican banks to be privatized will be Banpais, Banca Cremi and Multibanco Mercantil

An environmental group will pay off $4 million worth of Mexico's foreign debt in return for that nat

FOREIGN SALES CORPORATIONS haven't been overlooked by U.S. exporters for as long as the 201-year-old

The central bank is forecasting a high budget deficit, persistent double- digit inflation and a disq

FREE TRADE DOES NOT COME EASILY. As Mexico, the United States and Canada prepare to launch t

After a meeting Monday, Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitsky and Jacques Delors, president of the Eur

Enron Corp. is willing to extend the length of its long-term natural gas supply contracts with prear

The local maritime industry posted S$2.4 billion (US$1.2 billion) in revenue in 1990, according to p

Ever since the Kuparuk River oil field was discovered on the northern coast of Alaska more than 20

Maria Teresa Kasuga tossed a red, white and blue striped beach ball to a prospective customer here a

Tanker operators will be paying additional insurance premiums every time one of their vessels calls

JAPAN SETS GUIDELINES FOR SELF-REGULATIONJapan's agriculture and international trade and ind

A bipartisan group of senators gave Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner a heated reception Tu

The Houston-based Western Atlas International subsidiary of Litton Co. said it ordered a fourth seis

SIZING AGENTS Hercules Inc., Wilmington, Del., will increase prices of its rosin-based sizin

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International Petroleum Exchange Feb. 19, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Journal of Commerce Special LONDON - The following is the list of bunker prices obtained dur

JOHNSON & HIGGINS (New York) - Norman Barham, a J&H director and senior vice president, was appointe

Steel imports and exports both fell last year, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

A HEALTHY SURGE of container traffic through the Port of Miami over the past three years certainly w

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Japanese electric power companies are asking the government to allow unrestricted coal imports, indu

The government of The Netherlands still plans to release emergency oil stocks under International En

Saying Texas' antiquated product liability laws are hurting the state's economy, two Texas lawmakers

The Federal Trade Commission will be taking a closer look at the care labels tucked inside imported

The unexpectedly small trade deficit in December masked a slide in U.S. exports and a plunge in impo

After tracking a flat course earlier in the week, The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index fel

The top officer in the Scoular Co. announced that Continental Grain Co. and Scoular have signed a le

The European Commission Wednesday will discuss controversial proposals for deep cuts in farmers' inc

Maruba S. en C. por A. in March will begin a new container/breakbulk servicefrom South Ameri

1610 (Feb. 15, 1991) Previous day - 1590 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

U.S. industrial production fell a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent in January after decreasing a revi

Airline industry observers say they do not see much evidence of across-the- boar d insurance cutback

Typical regular unleaded gasoline prices fell below $1.30 a gallon for the first time in nearly six

Aluminum ingots- $1,475-$1,495 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

CZARNIKOW TO ACQUIRE V. BERG COMPANIESLondon commodity trade house C. Czarnikow confirmed th

Hapag-Lloyd (America) Inc., Staten Island, New York, will start a weekly service to Portland, Maine,

The Port of Tacoma reported increased wood shipments and higher value export cargoes in 1990.