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The Indiana Port Commission and Ceres Terminals Inc. will meet Aug. 28 to try to resolve a steel shi

1421 (Aug. 17, 1989) Previous day - 1417 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

BACKGROUND: The ability of many Third World countries to repay their external debt deteriorated shar

The Food and Drug Administration is conducting new tests of the 30 most prescribed generic drugs, re

General Motors Corp. expects sales in Taiwan this year to reach $350 million as demand continues to

IBM, SIEMENS INK DEAL TO SET UP ROLM UNITSInternational Business Machines Corp. and Siemens

The United States posted an $8.2 billion merchandise deficit for June, its smallest monthly trade ga

U.S. exports to Mexico are poised to boom, now that there's a promise of more money to spend on non-

As lawsuits resulting from the Alaskan oil spill multiply daily, Exxon Corp. faces a legal and polit

Evergreen Marine Corp., the container shipping giant, is holding talks on landing rights for its emb

NORTHWEST TO PURCHASE AIRBUS A330S, A340SST. PAUL, Minn. - NWA Inc., parent of Northwest Air

Stolt Tankers and Terminals (Holdings) SA, Greenwich, Conn., this week completed a $10 million expan

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

Rep. Glenn Anderson, D-Calif., said he will introduce legislation next month that would give the Int

BOOMING SALES, intrastate rates and a change in a customer's distribution have given a Minnesota tra

Two giants of the chemical industry announced a unprecedented agreement Thursday to cooperate in pet

* Customs Update 4A * Howard Simon - Simon Says 7A* NY Seeks to Pare High-Risk Insurance Poo

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MARSHALL ISLANDS GETS CUSTOMS TAX BREAKThe Customs Service has added the Republic of the Mar

A full membership at the Chicago Board of Trade traded for $350,000 Thursday, up from $340,000 at th

India's shipowners, worried about meeting their own manpower needs, are seeking government help to s

Royal Insurance Holdings PLC, one of Britain's biggest insurers, has not ruled out the possibility o

Increased underwriting losses in the United States and other overseas territories contributed to Gen

The nation's strictest clean air and truck management plan took a major step toward enactment this w

Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. is getting out of a shipping law controversy surrounding its status

DUTCH AGREE TO CERTIFY PRODUCTS AS DIOXIN FREEBRUSSELS, Belgium - The Netherlands will intro

For the week ended Aug. 12, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Increasing charter business is the main force behind a 12.3 percent rise in pretax earnings of South

PANIC SHORT-COVERING IGNITES COPPER RALLYCopper prices in London rocketed during the afterno

President Corazon Aquino has welcomed initial reports of a government agreement with foreign banks t

New Jersey will sponsor 10 companies at a trade show in the Soviet Union this fall, a trip that migh

One of the East Coast's largest suppliers of heating oil Thursday told retailers of the fuel his com

HOW TO USE: The following government bid opportunities are among the hundreds of such opport

APPLIX WILL SUPPLY SOFTWARE TO SWISS LIFEWESTBORO, Mass. - Swiss Life Insurance, of Zurich,

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Bureaucratic infighting is obscuring the real issues that need to be dealt with when it comes to ele

TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE FMC Corp. of Philadelphia cut prices for technical grade trisodium phosp

Thu., Aug. 17, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Central Design Bureau of the Soviet Ministry of Communications, along with several Eastern Europ

The seven-year saga of one of the biggest fraud cases ever to face London's insurance community ende