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The United States proposed a scaled-down plan to bring textiles under international trading rules th

Japan's five largest shipping lines registered comfortable gains in overall sales during the April-S

ELLIS & EVERARD ACQUIRES DISTRIBUTORBritain's Ellis & Everard PLC said it will acquire Indch

Sources at Sun Refining and Marketing Co. said recent changes in the way the company sets crude oil

Ocean freight futures prices eased further in light volumes last week, in spite of a run upward in o

Shippers told representatives of the nation's major railroads that if they don't provide enough rail

The California Trucking Association asked Gov. George Deukmejian to direct the state Public Utilitie

Shippers and watermen who depend on the Missouri River should find out next week whether the Army Co

SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES TO BOOST RATES 2 PERCENTSAN FRANCISCO - Southern Pacific Lines is tak

Key trading nations decided Thursday not to reject the European Community's proposal on agriculture

Thursday Nov. 8, 1990 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

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

Sun Refining and Marketing Co. has quietly stopped using a standard differential from crude oil futu

INFLATION RATE HITS 9.14 PERCENT IN INDONESIAIndonesia's economy continued to overheat in Oc

MARINE OFFICE OF AMERICA CORP. (New York) - Roderic J. Wildish was appointed executive vice presiden

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

The U.S. Postal Service, measuring its dropoff-to-delivery performance for the first time, said that

In the midst of Cuba's worst fuel crisis in years, President Fidel Castro apparently has become inte

PORTS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION. Nov. 12-16. Buenos Aires. Sponsored by the International Center for

''WARM WEATHER IS NOT THE PROBLEM," quipped a cocoa broker recently. The broker was alluding

Thailand said Wednesday that it accepted a ruling that a 10-year-old ban it maintained on imports of

Chinese steel production rose 8 percent to 54.5 million metric tons during the first 10 months of th

The Bush administration is still working out an appropriate response to rising anti-import sentiment

A government delegation from the Portuguese-administered enclave of Macao is due in Washington this

UNION SAYS RENAULT PLANS BIG LAYOFFSRenault, the French nationalized automaker, will lay off

Sea Containers PLC of Britain is relocating its Far East headquarters to Singapore from Hong Kong, s

40 COMPANIES TO CLOSE IN EASTERN GERMANYDUSSELDORF, Germany - Eastern Germany's privatizatio

LABOR TALKS BEGIN AT PORT OF BALTIMOREBALTIMORE - Management and longshore labor leaders beg

Sea-Land Service Inc. began service to the Port of Vishakapatnam in India, the company said in a sta

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's embattled government Thursday pinned its electoral hopes on an ec

Lloyd's Register of Shipping this week recently issued its first guidelines for integrated fire prot

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

2 CHEVRON SUBSIDIARIES MERGED IN FRANCEThe U.S. Chevron oil group said Thursday that, from N

The new prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, is asking industrialists, businessmen and trade gr

As of Nov. 8, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

Surprisingly strong trade figures are doing little to quell the pervasive feeling of unease among in

Northern Telecom, a leading Canadian telecommunications firm, Thursday launched a 1.9 billion ($3.7

Plans to spend $154 million to increase the Port of Tacoma's container volume by 50 percent are sche

WOOL QUOTAS PLANNED FOR AUSTRALIAN FARMERSLAUNCESTON, Australia - Australian farmers will be

TRUCK SHIPPERS ARE RELIEVED that some motor carriers apparently have postponed a rate hikeslated for