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Traders at the recent autumn session of China's main trade fair report the first steps in a difficul

SOVIET SOURCES DENY IVORIAN COCOA DEALLONDON/PARIS - A Soviet trade agency official Monday d

Uruguay Round negotiators have agreed to go ahead with a Dec. 3-7 ministerial meeting in Brussels, B

India was the largest shipbreaker in the world in 1989, but a combined foreign exchange and energy c

Nippon Yusen Kaisha reports its full-scale double-stack train service from Los Angeles to Mexico Cit

WHO OWNS the standards? Electronic data interchange works by replacing paper documents, tele

CP RAIL'S INTEREST IN D&H STILL HIGHTORONTO - CP Rail said Monday that its interest in acqui

The world at large will probably have to wait a while to see any significant results of a recent mov

UNIFY FORMS VENTURE WITH JAPANESE FIRMSUnify Corp. announced it has formed a Tokyo-based joi

Higher crude oil prices and a sluggish U.S. economy are likely to cause petroleum imports to "declin

A South Korean farm group is using a comic book to convince schoolchildren that foreign products are

A local group Monday signed a US$200 million joint venture agreement with Mexico to build an aircraf

A storm-tossed tanker off the Atlantic Coast creates an oil spill half as large as last year's Exxon

CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT WIDENS IN FRANCEFrance posted an estimated current account deficit o

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The garment industry is seeking to promote joint ventures with companies from Japan and South Korea

The German government is willing to release some of Berlin's strategic food and coal supplies to hel

PHILADELPHIA CRANE TO BE IDLE TWO WEEKSPHILADELPHIA - A key container crane at the Port of P

GROUP CALLS FOR TALKS ON WAR-RISK RATESNEW YORK - The federation of Gulf Cooperation Council

Two civilian companies that operate military cargo ships are in danger of losing their government co

Leaders of the United States, Britain and France took advantage of the Paris summit Monday to discus

The unexpected strength of seaborne trade between Asia and Europe should enable liner shipping compa

Nov. 19, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Nov. 19, 1990Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Mounting revolts in Brazil's Congress and business community are threatening President Fernando Coll

Four people were killed and four injured Monday as an explosion ripped through a synthetic rubber fa

In an attempt to maintain state control of the multibillion dollar insurance industry, state legisla

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

American, Korean and Taiwanese companies are joining with Malaysia's state energy monopoly to build

An overwhelming majority of the congressional candidates supported by the nation's largest dockworke

Nov. 19, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

McDonnell Douglas Corp. named Thomas M. Culligan vice president, program development and marketing,

SALE OF AUSTRALIAN LINES LIKELY TO BE SHELVEDCANBERRA, Australia - Plans to sell off Austral

New York Mercantile Exchange Nov. 16, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

The U.S. Navy confirmed Monday it had chartered more than 30 additional commercial cargo ships for u

The International Trade Commission is due to file four reports in December, apprising Congress and t

Bulgaria's student and independent trade union leaders threatened Monday to call general strikes un

GENERAL STRIKE CRIPPLES DOMINICAN REPUBLICSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A general stri

Gold prices strengthened Monday on surging crude oil prices, triggered by reports of an Iraqi troop

Taiwanese officials at last week's annual economic talks with the United States provided new details