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The Soviet parliament took an important step Tuesday toward the enactment of bank reform legislation

Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter Tuesday said the Department of Agriculture's tentative call fo

Shipping lines are scaling down expansion plans in the wake of sagging exports and rising oil prices

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The basic sea lines of supply to support the concentration of American troops in Saudi Arabia are no

A worldwide freight forwarders' body urged the European Community to keep shipping lines' inland act

Air cargo rates will go up again by October 1991 or sooner, based on rising fuel prices and limits o

Frans Andriessen, the European Community's top trade official, unexpectedly got the break he needs t

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES INC. (Miami) - Ted Arison retired Friday as chairman of the company that claim

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending Oct. 5, 1990. U

COASTAL GAS MARKETING COMPANY Coastal Gas Marketing Company (formerly ANR Gathering Company)

The U.S. dollar remained lower against the deutsche mark Tuesday afternoon, partly on fresh Middle E

Balfour Maclaine Corp. is seeking a buyer for its profitable metal ore and concentrate trading busin

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday is expected to lower its U.S. 1990 soybean and corn esti

Preston Corp. is closing two of its ailing, specialized truck lines to focus on its profitable gener

High oil prices and tight foreign exchange reserves prompted the government to delay finalizing oil

The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to hear an Oklahoma gas station operator's complaint that Texaco R

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

Oct. 9, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Three Weeks Ended Sept. 29, 1990, vs. Similar 1989 Period Cars CarsLoaded LoadedChan

Conrad H.C. Everhard had been in his new job only 72 hours when we lunched last Thursday. "I

China is moving closer to a broad legal framework covering foreign trade, equity positions and joint

U.S. lawmakers, torn between environmental and timber concerns, have abandoned efforts to formulate

INDUSTRY SEEKS ADDED FEDERAL INVOLVEMENTThe insurance industry may not be the next savings a

WE DON'T LIKE this input. That's what some electronic data interchange service suppliers say

Downtown commuters in Seattle apparently won't become hostages of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwai

1179 (Oct. 9, 1990) Previous day - 1180 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

* Gordon Platt - Financing Trade 3A * Quota Watch - 3A* Don C. Becker - Publisher's Notebook

The new budget pact hammered out in Congress would still require cuts of at least $13 billion in U.

GLYCERINE PRODUCTION ROSE DURING AUGUSTCrude glycerine production for August, 1990 totaled 2

THIOCHEMICALS W.R. Grace & Co.'s Evans Chemetics unit will increase prices of its Evanstab t

Will a budget-balancing proposal change the Federal Railroad Administrationfrom a watchdog t

Its red, white and blue stacks are streaked white from salt water, and thehull is rusty. But

In Hartford, where civic groups have struggled for years to coax people into a central business dis

TOP COURT WON'T HEAR RAIL BREAKMAN'S CASEWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Tuesday it woul

Shippers and port officials in Thailand say a steamship conference is proposing yet more surcharges

UAL BOARD TERMINATES EMPLOYEE BUY-OUT BIDCHICAGO - The board of UAL Corp., parent company of

In the 1980s, fearing first an attack by Libyan terrorists and later sabotage by Iranian-sponsored S

A series of one-day walkouts at numerous ports throughout Brazil could escalate into a nationwide st

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f