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The European Community is poised for a final push to create a huge 19-nation trading bloc of 350 mil

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

Romania's secretary for privatizations, Adrian Severin, said Friday that a devaluation of the lei wo

The Soviet Union is expected to re-enter the U.S. liner trade and steamship agents are jockeying to

The Port of Singapore Authority's proposed S$500 million (US$250 million) warehousing and distributi

A forum on the Shipping Act of 1984 last week produced an unusual display of harmony among shipper a

MONSANTO CO. (St. Louis) - John Kilkenny was named Monsanto Chemical Co.'s director of plastics busi

Utilities in Japan will use 13 percent more low-sulfur fuel oil this summer than they did a year ago

IBERIA AIRLINES PROFIT TAKES A NOSE-DIVEMADRID, Spain - Spain's Iberia Airlines made a preta

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 241.07 up 0.86 which compares

YEUTTER TO MEET TODAY WITH CANADIAN OFFICIALU.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Clayton

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SIGNS EAST BLOC DEALSLos Angeles-based Nantucket Corp., a computer softwa

JAPAN SEEKS TO SHARE AUTO PARTS TECHNOLOGYThe Ministry of International Trade and Industry w

Two key U.S. trade groups have formally accused the U.S. textile industry of holding current multila

Fifty years after Nazi bombers destroyed Rotterdam, the Dutch city is counting on Germany to strengt

China's efforts to tighten control of materials for key state enterprises are succeeding in alleviat

The impact of fuel cost surcharges on cargoes from North Europe to the United States will be less on

June 8, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

International Petroleum Exchange June 8, 1990Brent Crude Oil(Dollars Per Barrel)

''K" LINE AMERICA INC. (New York) - Robert T. Sherman was named district manager in Boston for the s

Pierre Rinfret, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, says he would like to see Kennedy

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) June 8, 1990Bid AskedCopper-G

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index fell sharply last week as prices turned lower for scr

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

June 8, 1990 Copper Total, 14,012. Gold Total, .1,748,060.Silver Total, .254,160,933.

Ocean freight futures contracts last week traded within their recent price ranges, ending near the b

A story that appeared in The Journal of Commerce June 5 on Page 1B under the headline, "Mitsui & Co.

With sentiment shifting more and more against log exports, the Port of Tacoma plans to pump $50,000

U.S. exports to Taiwan this year could top $13 billion, representing a 16 percent increase over 1989

The BT Nautilus, the tanker that spilled an estimated 260,000 gallons of oil in the Kill Van Kull in

After a prolonged gestation period, Hong Kong's first separate insurancecommission is in ope

''The industry needs price increases, but they might not come until 1991," says Udayan Ghose, an ana

June 8, 1990 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Premi

Maritime safety legislation pending in Congress would do "immense harm" to U.S. interests, a leading

STUDY: EXPORTS HIKE US BEEF, PORK VALUESU.S. beef exports in 1989 contributed $4.66 per hund

Gold prices are headed lower, with no apparent signs of a halt to selling in sight despite this week

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought 47,100 tons of steam coal for power plants in Tennesse

TOUGH RHETORIC MAY BELIE an empty threat in the battle to override President Bush's veto of the Amtr

In the coming decade, port managers will have to meet the rising challenges of environmental issues

Waste Management Inc. is betting time, energy and millions of dollars that pollution control will be