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The exodus of Hong Kong professionals seeking foreign passports before China takes over the British

An Irish aviation company filed suit Monday against Braniff Inc. to get back five jets it leased to

The Agriculture Department says the 1989 cotton crop is expected to be slightly less than 12.1 milli

Kentucky wants a piece of the European single market emerging at the end of 1992, and will reopen an

* Trading With the Netherlands 4A * Brazil's Car Exports Hurt by Currency Shift, New Rules 4

Inflamed passions and charges of special interest politics marked the final days of Pennsylvania's l

PARIBAS ADMITS BID FOR MIXTE HAS FAILEDFrench banking group Paribas confirmed rumors it had

A contract to be signed in Madrid today between the Spanish shipbuilding group Astilleros Espanoles

As the Bush administration prepares to unveil its fiscal 1991 budget, meat industry groups once agai

P-I-E CREATES UNIT FOR OVERSEAS SERVICESJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - P-I-E Nationwide Inc. formally

Two congressmen introduced legislation that would jail those responsible for environmental disasters

Electric utilities in the Northeast are seeing substantial increases in the demand for electric powe

TRANSCO ESTABLISHES NEW PAPER PROGRAMTransco Energy Co. established a new $600 million comme

US RETAIL SALES ROSE BY 0.8 PERCENT IN NOVEMBERRetail sales rose by a surprising 0.8 percent

U.S. exports to the Netherlands are booming, thanks to the trading prowess of the Dutch. Pro

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A hotel built too close to an airport radar screen because of a typographical error had its grand op

Japan is taking positive steps to revise commodities trading laws so practices meet international st

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

High-level railroad labor-management contract talks are in the middle of their second week here with

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter Wednesday said it would be ''difficult" to significantly

Poland and Hungary Wednesday outlined their economic reforms at a meeting with 24 Western nations th

Standard & Poor's Corp. has affirmed Canadian Pacific Ltd.'s senior debt and debenture stock ratings

Paccar Inc. took the lead in the heavy industry last month as traditional front-runner Navistar Inte

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors said it plans to challenge a federal law that requires random

British Airways PLC and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have taken a major step forward in their attempts t

Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov Wednesday urged members of the Soviet- led trading group Comec

Business executives visiting France for up to three months need not obtain a visa, contrary to what

In a new attempt to regain more control of the economy, China announced Wednesday it will take a gre

SOUTH KOREA PLANS TO DEVALUE WON BY 3 PERCENTSEOUL, South Korea - South Korean government wi

The main terminal at Groton-New London Airport must triple in size if it is going to meet demand dur

A forfait transaction involves a bank buying an exporter's trade receivables. The bank becomes the p

During the past five years, the U.S. Customs Service has resorted to lengthy audits, arbitrary rulin

The label "degradable" is appearing on plastic products from trash bags to diapers, but environmenta

NYK LINE TO OPEN AN OFFICE IN BOSTONNippon Yusen Kaisha, or NYK Line, is opening a Boston of

The Federal Maritime Commission is set to start a series of audits of various port agreements with t

With communist rule on its way out in Czechoslovakia, the debate has begun on how to undo the damage

SCHEDULING PROBLEMS POSTPONE COFFEE TALKSA meeting of Central American coffee producers set

"We got 90 seconds on the evening news with Dan Rather," said Fred Kayden, refering to his well-publ

AIR CONTROLLER STRIKE DISRUPTS ROME TRAFFICMore than 25 flights were canceled and planes arr