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Congress is expected to expand both economic aid and trade benefits to Eastern Europe this year.

Details of a new $70 million cargo complex for Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirat

British transportation officials said they are close to reaching a new agreement with the United Sta

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

The nation's two largest airlines are raising most cargo rates to help offset surging jet fuel costs

Qantas continues to dominate the air cargo business in and out of Australia and the government-owned

Air France is buying 55 percent stake in UTA, an airline subsidiary of the Chargeurs group, for a to

EASTERN RECORD PROBE WIDENED BY GRAND JURYA federal grand jury probe into allegations that E

Coast Guard teams and cleanup crews worked Friday to contain a spill of No. 2 home heating oil from

NEW YORK OIL HEATING ASSOCIATION (New York) - Dennis Griesing resigned as executive vice president,

A number of paperless trading projects involving oil companies and their business partners in Britai

EXXON PLANT TO RESUME FULL OPERATIONS SOONBATON ROUGE, La. - Exxon Co. U.S.A.'s Baton Rouge

The Bush administration, facing strong opposition from the auto and oil industries, is trying to rev

Ingram Coal Co., a major exporter of coal via terminals on the Lower Mississippi River, put its mini

Michigan gasoline prices soared for a second consecutive week, with prices now generally up as much

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

Mexico's average daily crude oil production increased 0.4 percent to 2.516 million barrels in 1989 f

The Coast Guard has started construction of a larger, faster prototype motor lifeboat that eventuall

CHELATING AGENTS Dow Chemical Co. announced a 3 cent-a-pound price increase for its Versene

Most of the ships that transferred out of Panama's shipping registry over the last three months are

JAPANESE BEEF QUOTA SET AT 167,000 TONSJapan will import 167,000 metric tons of beef for gen

The Singapore International Monetary Exchange's gold futures contract is likely to have a fair chanc

COTTON MERCHANT JULIEN FILES UNDER CHAPTER 11Julien Co., the world's No. 2 cotton merchant,

Heavier fines for careless barge operators might be necessary, a general with the U.S. Army Corps of

Colombia is studying a Costa Rican proposal for a more regulated supply of mild coffee to internatio

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index was pulled down late last week by lower scrap steel p

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Heavy buying of American wheat by the Soviet Union and China coupled with drought-reduced supplies c

Twelve members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were elected last week to the exchange's board of

This country will end its liberal policy on imports March 31, the commerce ministry says. Some busin

The Pacific Northwest's largest international trade organizations - Boeing Co., Microsoft and the po

CANADA UNEMPLOYMENT HIT 7.7 PERCENT IN DECEMBERCanada's seasonally adjusted unemployment rat

Fri., Jan. 12, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

* Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 6A* James M. Nevler -

ECONOMIC GROWTH EXPECTED TO SLOWWorldwide economic growth is expected to slow down this year

General Motors Corp. said Friday it will offer early retirement incentives, limit new hiring and red

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Investment feast or premium famine for insurers in 1989? The numbers can be confusing. The p

Leaders of a House maritime committee have asked a congressional investigating agency to assess full

French Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy urged Japan Thursday to do more to open up its domestic mar