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S. KOREA TO LIBERALIZE IMPORTS OF 98 PRODUCTSSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea will liberaliz

Recent corporate mergers, higher operating costs and new government noise and safety rules will push

GATX Terminals Corp., Chicago, said it is purchasing Exxon Co. USA's 1.6 million-barrel petroleum te

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The citrus canker scare that led to the burning of 20 million fruit trees in the mid-1980s reached t

NY WON'T HIKE RATES FOR HEALTH INSURANCEALBANY, N.Y. - The state's health insurance plan, wh

The top property/casualty insurance policy making bureau has proposed new options to make pollution

The new port authority set to take over operations at the Port of Philadelphia will start talks with

Dec. 8, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Taiwan is becoming one of the largest markets in the world for both imported and domestically produc

Fred Kayden, the man who brought Russian black bread by air to New York's Bloomingdale's department

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index declined to 102.4 on Friday for a loss of 1.3 points

No immediate changes are anticipated in Del Monte Tropical Fruit Co.'s ocean shipping operations fol

UNITED MACHINISTS OPPOSE NEW PROPOSALCHICAGO - United Airlines' machinists, who have opposed

FOLEY APPOINTS FOUR TO SHIPPING ACT PANELWASHINGTON - House Speaker Thomas S. Foley has appo

The infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies in Los Angeles and Orange counties is serious and could

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. of Allentown, Pa., is expanding its chemicals and industrial gases b

The United States and Canada proposed revisions to the multilateral trading system that would impose

The Soviet Union is negotiating a stake in a California startup biotechnology company, the first suc

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

US JOBLESS RATE ROSE TO 5.4 PERCENT IN NOVEMBERThe nation's unemployment rate rose to its hi

Chubb & Sons Inc. has signed an agreement with the Soviet Union's state-run insurers to provide prop

RULES/REGULATIONS Customs Drawback: Manufacturing and Same Condition. Dec. 13-14. Los Angele

The Chilean political opposition's 17-party conglomerate Concertacion de Partidos por la Democracia,

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Bill Usery, "supermediator" in the protracted strike by the United Mine Workers against Pittston Coa

FUTURES MARKET NEEDED IN TOKYO, REPORT SAYSA petroleum futures market is needed in Tokyo for

A story beginning on Page 1A of the Nov. 28 issue of The Journal of Commerce with the headline, "Tak

Dow Chemical Corp. raised acetone prices 2 cents a pound for rail and tank truck shipments, but sent

A Brooklyn shoe-store owner who billed Medicaid for expensive orthopedic footwear, but gave his cust

Airline deregulation has started to change course and this is the place. Philadelphia Intern

Currency traders predict the dollar will get much stronger in 1990, despite the prospect for some fu

Exceptionally cold temperatures could force a closing of the St. Lawrence Seaway before the schedule

THE FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET moved sideways in moderate volumes last week, in spite of a continued dro

Even the glorious fall weather, with temperatures in the 70s and humidity a comfortable 55 percent,

Newly elected members of the Supreme Soviet - the equivalent of Congress in the Soviet Union - say t

BOLIVIA - $58.2 million from the International Monetary Fund to help the government continue economi

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought 26,500 tons of coal for two power plants in weekly spo

Royal Nedlloyd Group NV, the Dutch transport company, expects to achieve net earnings in 1989 of 240

The United States should phase in a 50-cent-a-gallon tax on petroleum transportation fuels over nine