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The British Coal Corp. agreed to three-year supply contracts with the U.K.'s two soon-to-be-private

The news from the Port of Baltimore is not entirely bad these days. Yes, a strike by longsho

Five top Soviet food-buying officials will be sending a letter sometime in the next week or so to U.

A leaner Commodity Exchange Inc. is a reflection of disappointing trading at the the nation's larges

Don't expect the "poo-poo choo-choo" to leave the car barn anytime soon. Public indignation

The European Commission is supporting urgent steps to help alleviate environmental problems the Euro

Sea-Land Service Inc. is beating its European rivals in their own backyard. The giant U.S. c

TRUCKING GROUP BACKS TEEN DRIVING PROGRAMThe American Trucking Associations has joined Progr

The United States rejects criticism that it is pursuing a unilateral trade policy, Ambassador Rufus

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A new generation of electronic messages will be potent tools for companies that want to monitor purc

HONECKER UNDER ARREST IN EAST GERMANYFormer leader Erich Honecker and other top officials we

The National Mediation Board's new rules governing competing representation claims by railroad union

Small importers of jute goods from India are seeing their profit margins erode, as larger firms invo

Southeast Asia's leading economic powers are making another attempt to forge closer links, spurred i

Amid muttering by stockholders, Fruehauf Corp. ended a tortuous odyssey Nov. 29, a journey that carr

The major U.S.-based automobile makers reported U.S. car sales off 18 percent for Nov. 21 to 30, as

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FRENCH COCOA GROUP EXPELS PHIBROAssociation Francaise du Commerce des Cacaos, the French coc

The makers of Combat and Raid have locked antennae over the lucrative cockroach-killing market, trad

JAPAN RESUMES GRANTS TO CHINA ON 4 PROJECTSJapan resumed aid grants to China Tuesday, giving

U.S. Deputy Trade Representative Julius Katz will lead a team of U.S. officials to Moscow today for

A shipment of European steel was delayed at the port in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a few months ago when

International Business Machines Corp. announced Tuesday it would cut 10,000 U.S. jobs without layoff

The trial of three Argentine citizens accused of trying to extort $10 millionfrom E.I. du P

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The United States will cut the ceiling on Japan's share of the U.S. steel import market through Marc

COMBUSTION ENGINEERING GETS NOD ON EXPANSIONCombustion Engineering Inc. said it was awarded

The largest of Taiwan's three free trade zones is suffering a decline because of a tighter labor mar

Amid fierce competition for foreign customers, Japanese commodities futures clearinghouses are offer

Insurance commissioners proved Monday that they are dead serious about monitoring the finances of "a

The two major ocean carrier groups serving the trans-Pacific market, led by the promise of future t

Gov. Thomas H. Kean and a state senator criticized the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Mon

RULING OPENS UNIONS TO SUITS BY WORKERSThe Supreme Court Tuesday made it easier for workers

Insurance regulators here may have had trouble getting top billing, what with the likes of Liza Mine

More than 40 oceangoing vessels began heading slowly toward Montreal under helicopter and tugboat su

Sea-Land Service Inc. has unveiled a new computerized tracking system that helps keep tabs on wines

President Bush has tapped Fernando Manfredo, a Panamanian currently deputy administrator of the Pana

Hvide Shipping Inc. has entered the offshore oil service supply business with the acquisition of eig

Some of the businesses using the Port of Richmond, Va., want to form an advisory board to boost cus