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A tough U.S. position on agricultural trade may turn up the heat in ongoing multilateral trade negot

Exxon Corp. officials say any losses from a 200,000- to 500,000-gallon oil spill at the Arthur Kill

Temple Holdings Ltd. has sent a letter to takeover target Sea Containers Ltd., asking that the elect

Antonio J. Colorado, long known here as "Mr. 936" for his efforts to save Section 936 tax benefits f

The Department of Commerce is predicting that railroad freight traffic growth will taper off during

The National Grain and Feed Association has urged the Interstate CommerceCommission to rejec

International Development Systems Inc., Washington, D.C.-based consultants on textile and apparel tr

THE NEWS SEEMED ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. Housing, at last, was responding to the business downtur

COMMODITIES PRICES, as reflected in the 21-market Commodity Research Bureau Futures Index, fell by 9

President Bush Monday told the American Farm Bureau Federation his administration's "first priority"

Du Pont Co. said Monday it will spend $1 billion this decade to establish a major nylon manufacturin

TEXAS LOSSES HEAVY From December FreezeAUSTIN, Texas - December's heavy freeze caused an est

The Overseas Private Investment Corp. plans a second investment mission to Hungary and Poland this s

Two Agriculture Department analysts say the 1992 plan by the European Community to bring a single-ma

The Interstate Commerce Commission said it will allow trucking companies to raise their rates with t

Importers are beating a much-hated Customs Service user fee by bringing more goods into the country

Faster-than-expected growth at major steamship lines is causing the Port of Tacoma to revise upward

The Italian government has pledged to curb public spending following the realignments of the lira wi

BRITISH GAS TO LAUNCH US DRILLING VENTURESBritish Gas PLC is to launch its first exploration

Shipbuilding orders received by South Korean yards increased 14 percent last year to 147 vessels tot

Confidential International Cocoa Organization documents set out four scenarios for cocoa output and

Workers across the country have come to rely on employers' health care assurances as entitlements ra

JACKSONVILLE PORT AUTHORITY (Jacksonville, Fla.) - Dan Donaldson was hired as risk manager for the m

The Arthur Kill waterway, which had been closed since Wednesday due to a leak in an Exxon heating oi

FERRUZZI GROUP REALIGNS US OPERATIONFerruzzi Group announced the realignment of its New Orle

Compagnie Generale Maritime, Atlantic Container Line and Hapag-Lloyd AG plan to remove the Mexican

A forklift truck loaded with an ultrasonic cardiograph moves through a big warehouse, down a long co

The linked ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven posted a combined 5.4 percent increase in volume last yea

The last time Edwin F. Hale and Steven T. Jones worked together, the two were teen-age kitchen boys

Tom Olsen is the country manager in Bangkok, Thailand, for American President Lines Ltd. Mr.

Two new videotapes are available from Rockwell International Corp.'s Automotive Operations to provid

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has predicted average annual growth in its cargo business of 8.5 percent up

Jan. 8, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Hobbled byenvironmentalist's protests against methanol imports, Brazil's struggle against a looming

Eurotunnel, the English-French consortium building the first tunnel across the English Channel, will

TIN PRODUCERS TO MEET TO FIX EXPORT QUOTASKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The seven-member Associat

Life insurance companies from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were granted blanket approval Monday

Prices for spot delivery frozen concentrated orange juice futures skyrocketed Monday - more than two

A Chinese central bank official said Monday the World Bank was actively studying a resumption of loa

Oil and shipping industry officials Monday dismissed as improbable a report by the state of Alaska