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U.K. Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd Monday restated his government's conditions for becoming a membe

Bromon Aircraft Corp., which hoped to manufacture a sophisticated cargo transport plane here for U.S

All-cargo air service between the United States and Japan is likely to increase dramatically under t

Prospects that the Boeing Co. strike would be settled before Thanksgiving have dimmed considerably a

A San Francisco-based company plans to combine Soviet steel and labor, Canadian financing and U.S. m

Senator Linie, the German steamship line whose vessel was used to bring 4.4 tons of cocaine into thi

A Thai naval spotter plane saw bodies floating in the Gulf of Thailand Monday as ships continued to

AMERICAN AIRLINES ORDERS 6 AIRBUS JETSAmerican Airlines has ordered six Airbus Industrie twi

The future for struggling Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd. could be distinctly turbulent now that it h

Longshore locals at the Port of Baltimore are likely to issue 60 days' notice of a possible strike,

China will introduce stiffer laws to protect patents and copyrights and to stamp out counterfeiting

The head of the organization that governs most international trade says he'd like to see more pragma

CARRIERS WON'T TAKE HAITIAN CURRENCYThe six ocean carriers in the Hispaniola Discussion Agre

Kristian Jebsens of Norway has forged a joint-venture shipping deal with South India Corp., with 100

To commemorate the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, The Journal of Commerce once again would like

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is completing a $183.5 million fiber-optic cable laying operation

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Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Constance B. Foster says she is prepared to fight the industry i

The Supreme Court Monday refused to consider a challenge to a $2.5 billion settlement plan that woul

The former head of Transit Casualty Co., a high-risk insurer that left up to $4 billion in unpaid cl

HUGO LOSSES REDUCE EARNINGS FOR HARTFORDHARTFORD, Conn. - Losses from Hurricane Hugo, which

A visiting U.S. official urged Japanese government and business leaders to join the United States in

This port's foreign trade zone, one of the most active in the nation, will grow by about a third thi

Foreign sanctions imposed on South Africa have cost thecountry 500,000 jobs and billions of dollars

After two years of planning, South America's first privately owned cellular telephone network went o

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

China's new generation of private entrepreneurs, already threatened by a return to more orthodox com

MALAYSIA TO CREATE BORNEO TAX HAVENKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia will turn Labuan island

The questions fell insistently on the standing-room-only audience, but no one volunteered an answer.

Japan is discounting worries voiced by a senior U.S. official that excessive capital investments by

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

Current hard-line Chinese policies will be eased and the open-door economic program will continue, f

Representatives of two countries assailed as protectionist by the United States called Monday for fr

US, AUSTRALIA PLEDGE COOPERATION ON TRADESYDNEY, Australia - The United States and Australia

The Philippines expects to draw the second tranche of a $900 million extended facility from the Inte

Third World debt prices in the secondary market drifted lower in listless trading as traders awaited

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

The U.S. dollar rose in a quiet market Monday on expectations of steady U.S. interest rates ahead.

* Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A * Commodity Research Bureau 6A* Import Quota Watch

Poland devalued the zloty by 14.3 percent Monday in the fourth substantial devaluation since the Sol