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The Securities and Exchange Commission will ask Congress to settle the jurisdictional debate about c

S. KOREA TRADE DEFICIT IS LARGEST SINCE 1985SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea posted a custom

New Jersey lawmakers, insurers and the public will begin a series of meetings Thursday to tackle Go

The Port of Hong Kong remains the world's premier containerport, but only by a whisker as Singapore'

Corn and wheat futures at Chicago declined Thursday on concern that a brisk grain trade between the

U.S. Chamber of Commerce officials criticized U.S. efforts at reformingexport controls, warning that

Sea-Land Service Inc. named its Alaska division's management team Thursday, all of whom will report

Despite a continuing influx of U.S. and other overseas companies into Singapore's electronics indust

American Airlines will offer easy connections to and from Hong Kong as a result of a new agreement w

Buried in the pages of President Bush's budget is a proposal that is beginning to draw the attention

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

MONTEDISON INTRODUCES ASBESTOS SUBSTITUTEItaly's Montedison SpA, said it has introduced a ne

DOLE'S FARM BILL AIM: 'FINE TUNE' 1989 LAWSenate Minority Leader Robert Dole Thursday predic

CHUBB'S INCOME RISES FOR QUARTER AND YEARChubb Corp. Thursday reported net income for the 19

As the fog lifts on the Black Sea Port of Odessa, a shower of American corn falls into railcars read

A fire at Venezuela's Cardon refinery caused alarm among workers but no injuries, and will not inter

Polish officials Thursday asked, and the European Commission agreed, that the EC ship the bread whea

Mexico does not foresee the creation of a common market with the United States over the short term b

GM SETS SALES RECORD FOR FOREIGN MARKETSLeading U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. announce

Dane Miller, president of Biomet Inc., made some hurried telephone calls at O'Hare International Air

The United States, in a radical proposal to deal with the growing problem of delinquent payments to

EGYPT LOWERS PRICE OF CRUDE OIL BY $1CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt cut the price of its crude oil by

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is the latest to use leasing to assure it of sufficient locomo

When Japan's largest shipping line decided to take on some big competitors in the field of electroni

The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have agreed ona set of guid

SET-ASIDES REDUCED FOR RICE FARMERSRice farmers will have to idle only 20 percent of their a

Four men directly involved in the administration of a dockworkers union bank account fund are expect

Amoco Corp. and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union were still negotiating Thursday as of pre

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

* Customs Update 4A * Greg Johnson - Managing Traffic 2B* Boeing Delays Freighter Conversion

Knight-Ridder Inc. reported Thursday that fourth-quarter earnings from continuing operations rose to

Westbound trans-Atlantic freight rates for conference carriers will go up effective April 1, the Ame

S&P MAY LOWER RATING ON CON FREIGHT DEBTStandard and Poor's Corp. may lower the A+ senior de

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China Thursday released its second set of trade figures for last year, and they show a deficit inste

Monetary union between East and West Germany should be one of the first steps in the formation of a

Having survived several months of tumultuous fighting over auto insurance, state officials are optim

Latin America watchers rule out Brazil as a candidate for a new debt accord anytime soon, citing a l