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OMAN PLANS INCREASE IN OIL PRODUCTIONABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Oman will raise its o

They use chain saws, don't they? That question, about how the U.S. Customs Service opens car

Total cargo and containerized cargo handled by the Bay of Fundy Port of Saint John on Canada's east

Burlington Northern Railroad's recently signed agreement to help revitalize the Soviet Union railro

Divers patched the punctured hull of the American Trader, but the Coast Guard said the tanker that s

Like a great river, the goods pour through the U.S.-Canadian border borne by truck and by ship: pulp

An executive with one of the nation's few underground fuel tank pollution liability insurers says Na

Estimates of the damage caused by a ferocious predawn storm that spawned numerous tornadoes as it bu

European Community economy and finance ministers on Monday agreed to provide Hungary with a US$400 m

PETROCHEMICAL FIRMS IN GULF EYE EC MARTSABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - The Gulf Cooperati

Congress has its starting point on a 1990 farm bill, and the Bush administration has one, too. Exact

UK, FRANCE URGE SUGAR PRICE REDUCTIONBRUSSELS, Belgium - France and the United Kingdom Monda

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Rapid and clear-cut solutions to East Germany's currency problems are necessary before Western inves

The Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, or Cocom, the West's trade watchdog, me

China is resorting to a host of new tactics to delay payment on letters of credit, financial instrum

A NEW WORD HAS CREPT INTO THE LANGUAGE of economics: credibility. The president's annual economic re

ALASKA AIRLINES flew 317.3 million revenue passenger-miles in January, up 20 percent from 265.3 in t

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JANUARY RETAIL SALES SEEN RISING BY 1.3 PERCENTU.S. retail sales should rise 1.3 percent in

Cargo volume rose 9 percent to 24 million tons in 1989 at the Port of Nantes- St. Nazaire, or Port A

President Bush appeared Monday to rule out any immediate lifting of U.S. economic sanctions against

The Soviet Far Eastern Port of Nahodka reports that 1989 was a record-setting year for cargo handlin

Feb. 12, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

GE Capital Fleet Services has made a deal with American Express that allows fleet drivers to use Ame

The Interstate Commerce Commission will launch its investigation of trucking industry rate practices

Higher fuel prices and sharply discounted freight rates slashed fourth quarter-profits for some of t

A chemical once used to vulcanize rubber could help relieve the discomfort of cancer chemotherapy an

Peruvian President Alan Garcia has called on the United States to buy more coffee and cocoa as subst

SALVADORAN COFFEE BOYCOTTS CONTINUELongshoremen who refused to unload two ships carrying cof

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The U.S. Export-Import Bank granted a $9.75 million loan to China National Offshore Oil Co.

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it awarded two weekly spot coal contracts Feb. 5 covering delive

Feb. 9, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

The Soviet Union is preparing a series of new laws that should help spur more Soviet joint ventures

TORONTO PORT REPORTS INCREASE IN CARGOThe Port of Toronto expects to top 2 million tons of c

William D. Hathaway, a 65-year-old former U.S. senator from Maine, was approved by the Senate to ser

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Texas Instruments Inc., the Dallas-based high-tech company, has chosen Hong Kong for its first overs

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (Washington, D.C.) - George H. Babikian, president of Arco Products Co., A