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The municipal government of Shanghai is working with West Germany's Volkswagen AG on a plant for a n

There's a new name in the insurance brokerage business. Seabury & Smith Inc. is the new desi

KEMPER REPORTS DROP IN NET FOR QUARTERLONG GROVE, Ill. - Kemper Corp. Tuesday reported first

Two of Taiwan's biggest conglomerates and an Indonesian group have agreed to invest in a multibilli

DUMPING PROBE SET ON EQUIPMENT IMPORTSThe International Trade Commission cleared the way Tue

Results at the spring session of China's main trade fair were ''satisfactory," an organizing committ

The U.S. dollar traded higher against all key currencies except the Japanese yen Tuesday. De

Western Europe eagerly awaits 1993 to see what the creation of a single internal market may produce

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ARGENTINE SOY CRUSH EXPECTED TO SET RECORDBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine mills will pro

Commissioner Robert R. Davis of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission resigned Monday to become s

Gregory S. Johnson, 38, was named shipper editor of The Journal of Commerce. Mr. Johnson wil

SINGAPORE REFINERIES RUNNING AT CAPACITYSingapore oil refiners will keep their plants runnin

The New York region is planning a gala regional celebration of National Transportation Week, May 14-

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE'S 250,000 metric ton increase in the U.S. sugar import quota tri

Ten years ago, it was impossible to walk into a U.S. supermarket and buy fresh Chilean salmon at any

Travelers Corp. reported its net income fell to $92 million, or 87 cents a share, in the first quar

Having signed up the Swiss-based Norasia Lines as a regular user last month, operators of Malta's co

The Maritime Administration has released an updated guide listing maritime labor and management affi

The Federal Maritime Commission has rebuffed Evergreen Marine Corp.'s bid for guidelines interpretin

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

Officials at the Port of Baltimore are offering ocean carriers new incentives designed to increase

Two Greenpeace activists scaled the Georgia-Pacific headquarters building in downtown Atlanta Monday

In the icy, bitter cold Canadian arctic, native Inuvialuit peoples who once shunned development are

India will restrict crude oil and petroleum product imports to last year's levels despite a projecte

The chief of the largest seafaring labor organization in the United States has resigned one of his n

RAIL SHIPPERS GROUP CONVENES IN DALLASThe National Association of Rail Shippers is holding i

C. Bradley Mulholland has been promoted to president of Matson Navigation Co., Hawaii's dominant shi

A draft of an interim report by an advisory body to the Ministry of Finance is calling for the first

With the deadline set to expire today for signing large volume rate and service contracts from Asia

GLOBAL STANDARDS are going to be standard for customs agencies all over the world. That's on

Officials at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Monday they are still considering methods

With diskettes of truck tariffs in his computer and containership and train pictures on his wall, Jo

* Import Quota Watch 4A * Commodity Research Bureau: Sugar 7A* Miriam Widman - Europe View 1

Production starts in June for the first mass-produced electric passenger car in more than 50 years,

The Seabrook nuclear power plant was shut down for the third time in less than six weeks, prompting

The police crackdown on striking workers at the Hyundai shipyard signals a new government resolve to

While traders and merchandisers watch corn exports carefully for signs of increased demand, domestic

Health-care costs have soared so much in recent years that they have gobbled up most of the middle-A

Gerber Products Co., citing concerns about industrial espionage and public safety, has announced it