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

Slightly lower demand for industrial machinery and equipment caused those products' rate of inflatio

Ben Line Containers Ltd., the Scottish line that operates services between Europe and the Far East,

PROJECTS WILL INCREASE IRAN REFINING CAPACITYIran is expected to bring an additional 390,000

Textile Quotas to Watch as of Oct. 19, 1990* Country Category Description

Oct. 22, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The livestock pens at Plume Loco Ostrich Growers are 200 feet long. That's to give the big birds roo

American Maritime Transport Inc. wants to charter or buy an interest in nine foreign-flag vessels fo

The Port of Sacramento named C. Michael Vernon, 43, its new port director. Mr. Vernon was pr

1330 (Oct. 22, 1990) Previous day - 1274 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

* Mark Magnier - Inside Talk From the West Coast 4A * Import Quota Watch 5A* Commodity Resea

Taiwan, trying to boost development, will use its huge foreign exchange reserves to finance major co

The steel sector, public and private, is embarking on a substantial modernization, with overseas ass

The following business missions are scheduled. The Journal of Commerce assumes no responsibility for

Mon., Oct. 22, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Consolidated Rail Corp. and the trustee for the Delaware & Hudson Railway Corp. clashed in court Mon

Business for textile delegations at the current session of China's main export fair is down "markedl

Trade negotiators Monday reached a tentative agreement in talks aimed at strengthening rules coverin

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending Oct. 19, 1990.

Congressional leaders reached agreement over the weekend on overhauling the Clean Air Act, clearing

A promising new drug that effectively kept the AIDS virus from multiplying in animals in laboratory

As evidence accumulates that a substantial number of bunker suppliers are guilty of sharp trading pr

CF REPORTS INCREASE IN THIRD-QUARTER NETMENLO PARK, Calif. - Consolidated Freightways Inc. r

The oil markets suffered one of their deepest one-day routs Monday, as prices plunged across the boa

The Federal Maritime Commission says a shipper must be ready, willing and able to match another ship

Fujitsu Ltd. unveiled a "notebook-sized" personal computer last Thursday that is the lightest ever m

The Australian beef industry will continue to supply a major share of beef imports to the U.S. marke

Cash-rich Japanese life insurance companies will likely stop shifting newfunds into U.S. Tre

JOHNSON & HIGGINS (New York) - David Olsen, 52, was elected chief executive officer Monday. He succe

An insurance rating service called a consumer group's findings of potential solvency problems at fiv

Greg Wyer has to walk and eat lunch at the same time. The traffic manager for Metrolina Surp

Representatives from Aeroflot, the world's largest airline, met in Miami last week to talk with coun

The fortunes of three large air freight companies are reflected in their respective third-quarter re

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The new head of a local trade group has launched a plan to rejuvenate a fragmented trade community i

Oct. 22, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

New York Mercantile Exchange Oct. 19, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

The exiled government of Kuwaiton Monday circulated the text of a law making it the trustee of all p

UNIBANK TO TAKE OVER DEN NORSKE SUBSIDIARYCOPENHAGEN, Denmark - Unibank Denmark will take co

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