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Brazilian car sales plunged 29 percent in April from a year ago, as the industry showed the effects

China risks being forced out of the world textile big league unless it modernizes and innovates, a s

The California State World Trade Commission opposes two proposals now before Congress relating to fo

Soundair Express, a contract cargo carrier based in Toronto, is for sale, according to itsreceiver.<

In the last 17 months, New Jersey's largest health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jerse

Restructuring the U.S. transportation system is essential if American companies are going to compete

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's move to boost the grain purchase level for the Soviet Union was

US, JAPAN BEGIN TALKS ON JOINT OPPORTUNITIESJapan is hoping the current dialogue between the

The walls surrounding Brazil's jealously guarded computer market will begin to crack in June with th

The American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing made an impassioned plea Wednesday for retention of Chin

The sputtering nature of the national economy was evidenced in April when rail freight carloadings d

A confrontation is heating up between the Port of New Orleans and the New Orleans Steamship Associat

The Midwest barge industry on the Missouri River suffered a potentially serious blow from a federal

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The Korea Trade Commission plans to examine 200 types of imports that have registered rising sales.

Daiwa Bank Trust Co. of Japan will help finance worldwide exports from New York state under a new pr

NORTH AMERICAN BUYING NEW TRACTORS, TRAILERSFORT WAYNE, Ind. - North American Van Lines is a

A nationwide rail strike appears unlikely before early 1991, an influential rail labor leader said W

Copper prices rose strongly Wednesday despite news that the Southern Peru Copper Corp. lifted its fo

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

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IT SEEMS AS IF ALL OF A SUDDEN fuel oil price protection plans are in the news; maybe fuelvendors st

For nearly nine months, a federal grand jury has delved into whether Saddam Hussein's plan to make I

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I am in my hotel room in West Berlin - no, not the $200-a-day Schweizerhof or Bristol Kempinski, jus

JAPAN'S LIFE INSURERS REPORT HEAVY LOSSESJapan's 25 life insurance companies took heavy loss

Crude oil inventories declined slightly last week but remained substantially higher than a year ago,

LAND PRICE RISES STIR CONCERNS IN JAPANThe Bank of Japan warned in a report released Wednesd

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

May 9, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Two major airlines with a big stake in the international heavy freight air business are negotiating

The Navy wants more leeway in the way it chooses ocean transportation of defense cargo. It i

Repeal of the tax exemption for home heating oil and an increase in other petroleum taxes is expecte

The government of Tanzania has adopted an investment code that for the first time allows foreigners

The Military Sealift Command defended the methods it used in rejecting as too high a host of rates s

STAR REEFERS SLATES NEW SERVICE TO USStar Reefers, the refrigerated shipping line formed las

Transportation Week in New Jersey kicks off next Monday with breakfast speeches by two newcomers to

Container volume moving through Puget Sound ports can be expected to rise 71 percent to about 3.4 mi

Eastman Kodak Co.'s board of directors Wednesday elected Kay R. Whitmore to succeed Colby H. Chandle

A bill to provide greater protection for intellectual property was formally introduced in the legisl