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The color photo on page 1C of the Feb. 1 coal special issue showed coal being loaded at Pier IX in N

The rail industry will support coal producers in their battle against acid rain control legislation,

CARGILL SEEKS TO JOIN TOKYO SUGAR EXCHANGEGeneva-based Cargill International SA is applying

It is unlikely the United States will renegotiate the controversial U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement when

Just as first-generation expatriate Japanese businessmen come to grips with the unfamiliar ways of W

Record spending by Japanese abroad, higher oil imports and a strong dollar helped cut Japan's trade

JAPANESE COMPANIES PLAN W. GERMAN FUNDSJapan's "Big Four" securities companies are planning

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Maximum civil fraud damages awarded under the nation's major anti- racketeering law would be cut und

Poland has begun lobbying Western nations for a unique solution to its $40 billion debt burden that

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

From tower offices that look out over this prairie metropolis, the fledgling Mid-America World Trade

Allied Signal Corp. said a government-sponsored panel has recommended the company's Genesolv 2010 so

Firmer cotton prices pushed The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index higher last week.

The Soviet Union will remain a net importer of grain in the future, although it will still attempt t

ETHYL CORP. (Richmond, Va.) - J. Garner Moore has been elected vice president of chemicalsby the Eth

SAFECO REPORTS RISE IN FOURTH-QUARTER NETSafeco Corp. reported net income for the fourth qua

The European Community's campaign for a more competitive airline industry is in small but determined

Long-stalled attempts by the government of the Philippines to privatize its debt-laden airline are p

EUROPEAN SHIPPERS OK CONFERENCE RATE HIKEThe European Shippers' Councils and the North Europ

Matson Navigation Co. has placed an order with a San Diego shipyard to build a $129 million containe

Estonia's plan to set up a Baltic common market and attract Western investors hinges on the degree a

Brazil and Venezuela will be the main focus of debt-reduction plans by the United States in 1990 alt

Sweden is busily renewing trade and transport links with Estonia, a Soviet republic on the Baltic Se

ITEL CORP. BUYS BACK 1 MILLION STOCK SHARESItel Corp. has completed the 1 million share buy-

COLOMBIA HAS NO PLAN TO HOLD BACK COFFEEColombia will not withhold 10 percent of its 1989-90

West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on Friday assured Brazil his government would cooperate in workin

FACTORY ORDERS ROSE 1.9 PERCENT DURING DECEMBERNew orders for goods from U.S. factories rose

* Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 6A* Howard Simon - Simo

A verbal threshold for personal injury lawsuits may save drivers money on automobile insurance and p

THE UNITED STATES' dependency on foreign energy is rapidly increasing; in the near future it will li

Several reports in the Soviet press have exposed not only the crisis of loaded railcars that sit for

SME TO PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL R&D EFFORTThe Society of Manufacturing Engineers will participa

A New Jersey state senator said he was introducing a bill to ban disposing of plastic in landfills.<

The European Community, taking its cue from the United States, is seeking to manage its trade with J

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

ANERA SIMPLIFIES DESTINATION CHARGESThe principal eastbound trans-Pacific shipping conferenc

A U.S. Department of Agriculture source Thursday confirmed an earlier statement by White House chief

PURCHASERS' INDEX POINTS TO SLOWDOWNThe national purchasing managers' index posted a reading

With hundreds of angry residents battling a Federal Aviation Administration plan to establish a seco