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The Bush administration wants to eliminate export licensing on almost all goods traded among most W

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Cocoa futures rallied late Thursday when commission house buy-stops were triggered in the March 1990

BORDEN BUTTER GROUP SOLD TO FRENCH DAIRYNEW YORK - Borden Inc. confirmed Thursday that it ha

The trial of deposed Panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega could be the first high-profile crimin

U.S. government shipments of salted butter to the Soviet Union are churning up a new dispute betwee

With a string of actions against companies in Spain, France and Italy, the Business Software Associa

News Corp.'s Murdoch Magazines said Thursday it had arranged for a Japanese publishing company to la

BACKGROUND: Thousands of U.S. exporters may be eligible for refunds of billions of dollarsfrom the U

TAIWAN FORMALLY SEEKS MEMBERSHIP IN GATTTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan has formally applied to join

KEYSTONE COUNTERSUES MITSUBISHI INTERNATIONALCLIFTON, N.J. - Keystone Camera Products Corp.

Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu on Thursday offered to provide Eastern European countries with

Czechoslovakia will propose dissolution of the Soviet-dominated trade groupComecon and quit

The Soviet Union and its old East bloc allies roared out of the 1980s on a wave of reform that shatt

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

A General Agreements on Tariffs and ruling on the international legality of a 1955 U.S. waiver that

U.S. companies must get back into the business of making high-quality electronic goods or risk falli

CLARIFICATION CONCERNING HEALTH WARNING STATEMENTS FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. Customs reports it has d

Colombia's top foreign trade official called a preliminary U.S. decision to nearly double the import

A series of U.S.-Soviet negotiations aimed at forging improved economic ties will get under way in M

The Chinese city of Shanghai opened a trade fair here Thursday and acknowledged that the nationwide

The Export-Import Bank announced that it has established a $4.8 billion loss reserve for its loans a

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

CZECHOSLOVAKIA PLANS CURRENCY DEVALUATIONPRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - Czechoslovakia will devalu

INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT SURGES IN W. GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - Strong expansion in the cons

The Belgian unemployment rate in December was unchanged from November at 9.9 percent of the labor fo

The Philippines is coming to grips with the burden of debt hobbling its economy through restructurin

Thu., Jan. 4, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

* Customs Update 4A * Foes of Software Piracy Target European Firms 5A* Howard Simon - Simon

US FACTORY ORDERS EXPECTED TO RISE 2.7 PERCENTU.S. factory orders for November will rebound

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The Big Three U.S. automakers on Thursday reported a 14 percent slump in late- December sales of Nor

FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP. (Memphis, Tenn.) - Jeffrey R. Rodek has been promoted to senior vice president

By upgrading its small fleet, MGM Grand Air will get additional capacity for first-class passengers,

Emirates, the fast-growing airline based here, will expand its scheduled service operations into the

Traffic Club of Philadelphia, 82nd annual meeting and industry contact luncheon, Jan. 9. Contact: Pa

Employers are finding ways of getting at mountains of capital, all in funds established for the "exc

An ethnic minority and consumer group coalition led by the Consumers Union made an appeal Wednesday

Beginning this week hospital doctors working for Britain's National Heath Service or NHS will have t

The federal judge presiding over litigation stemming from the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over L