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A Pennsylvania publisher plans to provide food for Soviet minds along with better-tasting sausage fo

U.S. polyethylene producers are optimistic that their planned April price hikes will stick despite s

The Pepper Commission's plan to guarantee Americans access to health care would have little effect o

HOW DO YOU HAUL garbage without everyone knowing it's garbage? That was a much debated quest

Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and city officials broke ground Monday on a critical truck access road in So

The calendar says 1990, but in regards to a new union dockworkers contract, the year is beginning to

Conterm Consolidation Services (U.S.A.) Inc., Los Angeles, has established a new gateway operation i

Cargo volume at the Port of Baltimore is projected to continue to decline this year and next, but su

One of three major improvements to the filing process occurred around the first of the year when Un

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

Intercargo Corp., which underwrites U.S. Customs Bonds for forwarders and brokers, said its fourth q

The U.S. dollar rose Monday, particularly against the Japanese yen, sparking further dollar sales by

Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest automaker, said Monday it plans to build a huge proving ground n

Maxwell House Coffee Co. plans to close one of two roasting plants in either Hoboken, N.J., or Jacks

PERU OFFICIALS DECLARE COPPER STRIKE ILLEGALLIMA, Peru - The Tacna city office of Peru's Min

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European Community policies aimed at forcing foreign manufacturers to produce semiconductors inside

Mar. 12, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, founded 30 years ago, is at a turning point.<

A maritime brief on Page 3B of The Journal of Commerce March 12, headlined ''US Merchant Fleet Decli

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

Marine insurers are bracing themselves for a surge in claims from the exceptionally severe winter st

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. signed an agreement Monday to share a key technology used in maki

Japanese corporations intend to expand their capital investments by 8.6 percent on a year-to-year ba

Coffee prices recovered from sharp declines to close only moderately lower Monday. Prices fo

ALTHOUGH 1990 HOUSING STARTS are expected to match last year's disappointing 1.4 million dwelling un

The long-term trade consensus continues to be bearish for wheat futures, with Chicago Board of Trade

* Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A * Import Quota Watch 4A* Commodity Research Bureau:

SWISS INSURER ACQUIRES GENERAL CASUALTY OF USWINTERTHUR, Switzerland - The Winterthur Insura

General Casualty Cos., a subsidiary of Reliance Group Holdings Inc., will be sold to Winterthur Swis

T.W. BOSWELL ELECTED TO POST AT OVERNITERICHMOND, Va. - Thomas W. Boswell was elected chief

World demand for steam coal was forecast this week to double by 2000 before being overtaken by other

The Maritime Administration announced Monday that a third round of U.S.-Soviet bilateral maritime ta

Mar. 12, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

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The Military Sealift Command has handed over a multimillion-dollar tanker contract to a new operator

Textiles Minister Shard Yadav is trying to arrange more cargo flights to clear a backlog of export g

SEA-LAND EXECUTIVE URGES CBI EXPANSIONOAKLAND, Calif. - A senior executive of Sea-Land Servi

Next time you slip into a Liz Claiborne skirt, think Costa Rica. Levi's Dockers? Try the Dom

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT CITES EXXON NEGLIGENCEWEST ORANGE, N.J. - Exxon Corp.'s negligence in m