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SOVIETS SAY TIME IS RIGHT TO JOIN GATTConditions are ripe for the Soviet Union to join the G

Temple Holdings Ltd. said has extended until midnight Monday its tender offer for shares of Sea Con

Aug. 10, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Rescue workers searched through twisted metal and swirling waters Thursday for survivors who may be

U.S. officials have presented Japanese representatives with a new proposal permitting the first Japa

The Dominican Republic has signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with the U.S. Treasury Depart

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

Japanese companies are looking to hire foreigners. They need them to run Japan's growing ove

The well-dressed Brazilian lumberjack wears swimming trunks these days and thinks about adding pocke

More than 200 members of Congress, troubled with Sir James Goldsmith's hostile bid to takeover B.A.T

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

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

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

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Swiss franc traders William Walsh and Mark Fuhrman Thursday became the f

Selling a union trucking company is difficult during the best of times. Peddling a money-losing frei

Drummond Co., the coal king of Alabama, is taking steps to expand its U.S. operations by acquiring u

U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT (Washington, D.C.) - Michael P. Skarzynski was named assistant secretary fo

Inexperience, lack of information, confusion about options and parochialism at U.S. ports are preven

The final stretch of Interstate 696 in Michigan will be off-limits to trucks carrying flammables and

Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts faces competition for one of its largest remaining groups as

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

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

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

The Port of Los Angeles Wednesday authorized the purchase of coal-handling equipment that has been s

P&I Seminar. Sept. 6-8. London. Sponsored by Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. Ramada Hotel, 10 Berners S

Contract talks between Pittston Coal Group Inc. and its striking United Mine Workers of America empl

BRAZILIAN OCEAN SHIPPERS report few hassles despite a series of dockworker strikes in that country t

Todd Shipyard Corp., still operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, returned to profitabili

Plans by four U.S. states to set up trade offices in Taipei, Taiwan, will give the Asian nation 20 A

LABOR REPORTS DROP IN NEW JOBLESS CLAIMSNew claims for state unemployment insurance benefits

U.S. insurer, Chubb Corp., will expand its operations in Australia in the line with its greater comm

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

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

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