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

GRAIN, COTTON EXPORTS TO CHINA TALLIEDThe United States exported 26,866 metric tons of wheat

Multinational executives here have given mixed reactions to a government proposal that they use froz

PHILIPPINE OIL COMPANY CANCELS BUYING TENDERPhilippine National Oil Co. late Tuesday night c

Japanese refiners are deferring lifting crude oil they have contracted to buy, adding to the glut in

CONRAIL POSTS DECLINE IN 1ST-QUARTER EARNINGSConsolidated Rail Corp. earned $25 million, or

Workers on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad are threatening to strike if the company and the unio

The trucking industry in Australia has decided it must lift its public image to gain greater public

JAPANESE FLIGHT CREWS END ONE-DAY STRIKEDomestic flights in Japan returned to normal Wednesd

Before a cheering crowd of Norton Co. workers, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis signed the nation's toughest

Kintetsu World Express, a large air freight forwarder, opened a perishables facility at New Tokyo In

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport plans to establish a dedicated international courier/express traffic cent

A non-event became an important event for New York and London cocoa markets Tuesday. ''It's

Smuggling operations are helping Pakistan, India, Argentina, Brazil and Iraq to build or expand nucl

The rules may be about to change in the Cimarron National Grasslands, a108,000-acre federal

Taiwan hopes to become a developed country by 1993 when its per capita gross national product is exp

FLIGHT CREW STRIKES HIT JAPANESE AIRLINESAll Nippon Airways Co. flight crews went on a 24-ho

The Supreme Court, accepting a case of broad significance in the workplace, agreed Monday to decide

On Feb. 10, David Brost, president of the Chicago trading company that bears his name, wandered up

NORTH AMERICA Malaysian Furniture Show. April 19-27. High Point, N.C. Contact Mohammed Ab. H

1447 (Apr. 17, 1990) Previous day - 1456 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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

The Japanese spent a record amount of almost $1.8 billion on artwork from abroad last year, official

Borden Chemicals and Plastics LP said high natural gas costs reduced profitmargins for metha

National timber harvests will increase 55 percent over the next half century but industry employment

NORTON LILLY INTERNATIONAL INC. (San Francisco) - W.C. Daniels was named marine operations manager f

Purism, I suppose, has its place; but in some cases its inherent rigidity is misplaced, regressive a

Local re-export trade, which is dominated by the United States and China, suffered a sharp decline i

HAZELWOOD APPEALS NEGLIGENCE CONVICTIONJoseph Hazelwood, fired Exxon captain, acquitted on c

Friends of the Earth who shop at Sunflower Natural Foods here gladly pay $1.59 for a small can of t

Apr. 17, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

The government on Tuesday launched an effort to prevent another train fire like the one this week th

Computerized information systems will be a key weapon in the battle to stop express and other freigh

Washington will place Taiwan on a list of "unfair" trading partners next week, leading to possible U

FRANCE SAYS PRICES ROSE 0.3 PERCENT IN MARCHFrench consumer prices in March rose 0.3 percent

Hapag-Lloyd AG's Olaf von Maydell reminds me of one of those Clint Eastwood characters in the movies

Trying to serve two constituencies, the Port Everglades Authority has managed to anger both, and cou

MAN ACQUIRES STAKE IN SPANISH PROCESSORMADRID, Spain - The London-based commodities company

Plastic is forever. The millions of tons discarded each year will never rust or rot away. Th

The U.S. dollar was mostly higher in choppy trading Tuesday. The U.S. currency shifted direc