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Southern California bug experts again are marshaling their toughest weapons - pesticides, traps and

Booming wheat exports were mainly responsible for driving Washington state's 1988 farm exports up 47

James K. Batten, chief executive officer and board chairman of Knight-Ridder Inc., has been named th

Prices for Third World debt in the secondary market were marginally lower following a volatile tradi

Police are using the computer to nab truck drivers impaired by fatigue. In a $200,000 pilot

Brazil's second and third largest commercial airlines, financially troubled Viacao Aerea de Sao Paul

Customs brokers and freight forwarders are banding together to create an association big enough to h

The Supreme Court let stand a lower court's determination that federal Food for Peace cargo preferen

HUGE IRON-LOCK GATES SET FOR TRIP TO BUFFALOALBANY, N.Y. - Eight huge iron-lock doors are be

Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia said it will expand its Plexiglas acrylic sheet facility in Kensin

SODIUM ERYTHORBATE Pfizer Inc.'s chemical division said it will increase sodium erythorbate

The Japanese proposal on agriculture to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was viewed by som

CORN EXPORTS SAG, IMPORTS RISE IN CHINAThe U.S. Department of Agriculture said China's corn

EC CONSUMER PRICES ROSE 0.5 PERCENT IN OCTOBERBRUSSELS, Belgium - European Community consume

World demand for cars should hold steady in 1990 and grow by an annual 2 percent over the next few y

In the heart of this dismal city, where everything is gray after 44 years of communist rule, a spark

Freight shippers are promising to fight an Interstate Commerce Commission proposal that would allow

Thanks to unyielding government price controls on its products and a money- losing fuel alcohol prog

BALTICA WILL DECIDE ON SUEZ DEAL TODAYThe boards of Denmark's largest insurer, Baltica Insur

The Port of Bordeaux, the fifth-largest deep-sea port in France, will invest 123 million French fran

A secret meeting between B.A.T. Industries PLC and its financial advisers to discuss controversial s

Negotiators for Eastern Airlines and the pilots union will meet today, less than a week after the pi

European television is changing fast, and investors on both sides of the Atlantic are scrambling for

Saxton Hall, a U.S. apparel company, said its relationship with suppliers in Poland is running more

A hearing opened Monday on pretrial motions for the trial of the Exxon Corp. oil tanker captain accu

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Representatives of several independent oil-producing countries and states met with Organization of P

A leading international trade and maritime law firm based in the Netherlands is merging with a Belgi

Compagnie Generale Maritime, or French Line, aims to spend 5 billion French francs (US$806 million)

Europe's staid insurance industry is being jolted by a takeover frenzy as leading companies jockey f

CME FINES, SUSPENDS TWO YEN PIT TRADERSThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange said it has fined and

Nov. 27, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Mon., Nov. 27, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

A major revamping of the ocean liner business between Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland is officiall

Jack Castinova, a flamboyant man who tried his hand at acting and diamond mining, finally hit the ja

CALIF. FIRM LICENSES TECHNOLOGY TO MOBILAdvanced Polymer Systems Inc. of Redwood, City, Cali

The Sweetener Users Association said USDA's decision last week to raise the U.S. sugar import quota

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

Increasingly tight control of foreign imports by China and the country's shortage of hard currency a

THAT'S THE WAY WE LIKE IT, customs brokers and forwarders say about the attitude of Carol Boyd Halle