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Thu., Aug. 10,1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Ironically, doing business in China now is easier in some respects than it was before the June 4 mas

President Bush's Economic Policy Council has deferred a decision on whether to bolster U.S. export f

* Customs Update 4A * Howard Simon - Simon Says 6A* Russ Banham - Inside Talk on Insurance 9

The government announced earlier this week it would sell 14 state-run companies to the private secto

The Furth Foundation will award a $25,000 cash prize next year to the best research paper that offer

Two dozen plants accounted for a third of all the highly hazardous industrial chemical releases repo

International Trade and Industry Minister Hikaru Matsunaga said Thursday that Japan will not discuss

Neste Corp. said it has signed an agreement with the government of Portugal to buy a a state-owned p

POOR SUGAR CROP SEEN FOR E. GERMANY AGAINFRANKFURT, West Germany - West German statistician

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Britain's Department of Trade and Industry said Thursday that it was investigating alleged insider t

The Department of Transportation's No. 2 official, Elaine L. Chao, signaled her support for ports to

A wine and spirits shippers association is tendering most of its European traffic to independent oce

Antioxidants Witco Corp.'s Agus division said rising costs of diphenylamine has lead it to r

The U.S.S.R. was rumored late Wednesday and early Thursday to be seeking additional U.S. corn, perha

Coffee futures were sharply lower Thursday, trading at a new life-of-contract low of 79.55 cents a p

DOW UNIT, SHELL CANADA SIGN ETHANE CONTRACTDow Chemical Co.'s Canadian subsidiary said it ha

There are always questions about the goings-on at Cargill Inc., the giant grain trading firm based i

Thousands of faded Army-green tariff binders are a step closer to becoming obsolete with the Federal

AMERICANS AREN'T QUITE GIVING AWAY the family farm, though foreign ownership continues to increase s

A sorghum exporter and a miller have begun using the new sorghum futures contract at the Kansas City

A group of Western and Soviet economists suggested steps to exchange the Soviet ruble freely with We

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The captain of the Greek-flag tanker World Prodigy that grounded in waters off Newport, R.I., pleade

The latest volume of Federal Maritime Commission Reports is available to the public. The FMC

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

Orders are up so far this year for South Korea's shipbuilders, but they are worried that currency ap

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

BOLAND TAKING ON DUTIES IN BOSTONCapt. William H. Boland Jr. will assume command of the Coas

THE POT KEEPS GROWING LARGER in the competition among three Florida ports to land what is to be the

The U.S. Customs Service, the Coast Guard and other enforcement agencies say they rely on three broa

The New Hampshire Port Authority is pushing ahead with plans to expand the Port of Portsmouth, with

Aug. 9, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Richard Judy, former director of the Dade County Aviation Department, and his aides perfectly legall

Larger cargo ships will be able to reach Portland's major dry cargo terminal after a new $115 millio

Delays due to excessive paperwork are causing airlines and their business partners to lose out to so

Stung by recent developments in electronic data interchange standards and seeking to create a new vo

CAROLINA FREIGHT TESTS NEW COMPUTER SERVICECHERRYVILLE, N.C. - Carolina Freight Corp. is tes

The nation's large railroads have reported a substantial drop in operating income, and only marginal