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NOBODY'S UNIQUE, the air cargo industry is finding out. Customs brokers and freight forwarde

Indian Oil Co. will continue to buy heavily on the spot oil market this year, as it has done since I

2ND-QUARTER COLLAPSE IN OIL PRICES EXPECTEDNEW YORK - An oil price collapse by spring or soo

The United States said Friday that Jordan had no special exemption from a United Nations embargo aga

Feb. 4, 1991 Copper Total, 14,720. Gold Total, .1,775,213.Silver Total, .266,973,827.

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Frirsday at 213.65 off 0.47 which compares

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MONETARY POLICY SEEN KEY TO EUROPEAN UNIONDAVOS, Switzerland - Bundesbank President Karl Ott

The United States and Venezuela have completed the first round of negotiations on the establishment

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EC MINISTERS MEET ON SECURITY, DEFENSEBRUSSELS, Belgium - European Community foreign ministe

A government plan to force shipping lines to give 100 days' notice of freight rate changes, and nego

Nevada Insurance Commissioner Al Iuppa was placed on administrative leave with pay last week followi

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President Bush's new budget calls for termination of the final round of the Clean Coal Technology pr

By coming close to its goal for reducing its waterfront work force, the Port of New York and New Jer

The only major new government spending on maritime programs proposed by President Bush Monday is an

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PRODUCTIVITY CLIMBS AS LABOR COSTS RISEWASHINGTON - The productivity of U.S. non-farm busine

Communist Albania is planning major economic changes after 46 years of Stalinist central planning an

Almost unnoticed, the European Community is steadily forging ahead with the creation of a giant fron

Australian cannot afford to maintain its wool reserve price at all costs, a spokesman for the office

The Bush administration Monday proposed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture be allowed to spend

Protests from waterfront union leaders, New Jersey port officials and a competing stevedore are hold

Federal officials raised serious doubts Monday about a Massachusetts budget- balancing scheme to rai

The Lloyd's of London insurance market has responded to increasing demands for cover against acts of

Singapore and Mexico are likely to develop closer ties in shipping, trade, tourism and investment, f

Aluminum ingots- $1,465-$1,475 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

Feb. 4, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

The U.S. government is considering whether to exempt ten shipping lines serving the Middle East from

Domingo Cavallo, Argentina's new economy minister, announced large increases in utility rates, a pla

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION RISES 0.7 PERCENT IN GERMANYFRANKFURT, Germany - Increases in the ener

The U.K. wants more money from its allies toward the cost of its war effort in the Persian Gulf, U.K

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

RTZ UNIT TO CLOSE ITS UK TIN SMELTERWholly owned RTZ Corp. subsidiary, Capper Pass, which op

GENOESE LIKELY TO SEEK TEAMSTERS PRESIDENCYNEW YORK - William Genoese, who heads the Teamste

Law enforcement officials reported Monday the discovery of what are believed to be two pipe bombs at

The Navy last week awarded a $38 million contract to Trinity Marine Group for the construction of 17

While the Greensboro, N.C., area is using land and incentives worth $47 million to lureone of the st