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An extended dock strike in Britain would hit exports of new-crop barley and wheat and blunt the comp

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

EC MAY LIFT CURBS ON JAPANESE PRODUCTSBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community Commission

A group of U.S. computer software companies has won a small victory in Italy in its ongoing battle t

A steel mill is melting down old Soviet tanks to make car parts and steel pipes, a company spokesman

Chase Manhattan Bank cut its prime lending rate to 10.5 percent from 11percent Monday, reinforcing t

A major Japanese steamship line is adding a regular Northwest port call to its weekly service betwee

Malaysian International Shipping Corp. is increasing its fleet expansion withinvitations for

Key players in the development of U.S.-Japan trade ties exchanged verbal salvos Monday over which si

When Ronald M. Brooke decided to start a business, he expected that he could also contribute to a wo

The Federal Maritime Commission launched a probe Monday into whether some chocolate and wine shipper

Dockworkers from Maine to Texas will vote Aug. 1 on a new 14-month master contract with waterfront e

Top executives of more than a dozen leading containership lines met here to attempt to reach agreeme

Think service, not cost, when it comes to providing express delivery of goods. This was the

The European Community wants discussions over the proposed Pacific economic group linking North Amer

COPPERWELD TO BUILD NEW PLANT IN ALABAMACopperweld Corp. will expand its structural tubing b

When a tobacco shipper tired of water damaging cigarette loads, it turned to BJK Industries Inc.

KRAFT GENERAL FOODS (Glenview, Ill.) - James J. Morgan was appointed senior vice president, corporat

As the Massachusetts Legislature struggles to decide if residents should pay the nation's highest in

About 5,000 desperately ill Floridians, including AIDS, cancer and organ- transplant patients, could

Mathers to Head J&H Group NEW YORK - Charles W. Mathers, a senior vice president, was named

Worker-paid premiums for family health-care insurance jumped 70 percent in the last two years, accor

An article on page 9A of The Journal of Commerce on Thursday July 6 incorrectly stated the overall A

Insurance companies won't be able to cover the cost of a major natural disaster, such as an earthqua

The state will seek to take over Cadillac Insurance Co. of Farmington Hills, which state insurance b

CALIF. PROPOSES BOOST IN WORKERS' COVER COSTSACRAMENTO, Calif. - More than 168,000 state wor

HARDENER PRODUCTS Reichold Chemicals Inc. of White Plains, New York, announced price increas

Demand for polyvinyl chloride is expected to fall sharply in 1989 and 1990 as the U.S. real estate m

The Dairy State has become a focal point in a simmering agribusiness controversy over a genetically

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The U.S. sugar policy is a prime candidate for major surgery. By now, every farmer who grows

Grain markets are entering a very critical growing period for grains and soybeans, when traders hang

2,000 WORKERS STRIKE SOUTHERN WOOD MILLSCROSSETT, Ark. - About 2,000 plywood workers at five

Weather and supplies were expected to be the keys that define U.S. old-crop/ new-crop cash corn spre

During June, the CRB Futures Index, containing prices of 21 commodities, made a 16-month low and the

MEAT IMPORT LEVELS BELOW QUOTA TRIGGERWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said t

TRANSAFRICA EXPANDS ITS SERVICE TO ANGOLAVIRGINIA GARDENS, Fla. - Transafrica Line has expan

U.S. ports, fearful of losing business, aren't billing their customers for channel-dredging costs, a

One of the largest and most modern shipyards in the Philippines is tapping the public for cash to ex

United Parcel Service was scheduled to begin on Saturday a weekly freighter flight from Los Angeles