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Less export control paperwork doesn't mean less enforcement, a Commerce Department official warned U

INDUSTRIAL ORDERS DROP 3.6 PERCENT IN WEST GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - Demand for West

Royal Nedlloyd Group NV, the Dutch transport group, said it will buy the West German freight forward

ICI TO CONSTRUCT PLANT IN TAIWANImperial Chemical Industries PLC said it will build a 150 m

The great bow swung slowly west, wheeling past the Battery and the twin towers of the World Trade Ce

W. Don Welch, executive director of the South Carolina State Ports Authority, has been elected to a

Lloyd's of London is not a company, but a 300 year-old insurance marketplace of some 400 syndicates

A British company launched an insurance policy against AIDS last week, saying it provided unique cov

The U.S. dollar inched higher Thursday in a quiet, thin market. Dealers agreed the market wa

Evergreen Marine Corp. plans to build containers at a new plant in Malaysia, more than doubling the

PEARCY MARINE INC. (Houston) - R.L. "Larry" Moseley was named vice president, operations in the Hous

UK SUFFERS SETBACK IN PRIVATIZATION PLANBritain's Conservative government suffered a setback

Labor leaders predicted a million people would join next week's one-day general strike in Ecuador to

THE HEAVY RAINS of the past week have left more than one Louisiana rail shipper high and dry.

A national shipping agency has reorganized and formed a division that will support Westwood Shipping

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The Port of Oakland crawled over another hurdle in its longstanding bid to dredge its inner harbor.<

CONTINENTAL GRAIN CO. BUYS TWO ELEVATORSKANSAS CITY, Kan. - Continental Grain Co. has purcha

Latin America's debt crisis should hit U.S. exporters harder this year than in previous years, predi

The Chinese textile industry, the country's chief export earner, is looking to the Soviet Union for

A United Nations unit Thursday launched a new plan to stave off further economic ruin in Africa, say

President Bush is expected to offer assistance to Poland and Hungary to helpthem clean up their envi

The Canadian government Thursday released a prospectus outlining the sale of its remaining 57 percen

Gasoline production reached its highest weekly output level since the last week in December 1978, th

NORTH SEA WORKERS TO SUSPEND STRIKELeaders of striking maintenance and construction workers

The European Community said Thursday it "deplores" a judgment by U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hil

Chinese legislators Thursday named a new ambassador to the United States and replaced the ministers

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China has ordered major hotels in the capital to unhook satellite dishes that receive foreign news b

When three major oil spills occurred within one day last month, the Coast Guard's Emergency Strike T

Western leaders at next week's economic summit in Paris are expected to reaffirm existing broad econ

A U.S. appeals court upheld the Federal Maritime Commission's ocean forwarder regulations and said t

At Boeing Co., they call it "supersonic fever." And the Pacific Northwest is expected to get

Spain is the latest European country to join the paperless trading bandwagon. SimpoEspana, t

NEW NETWORK CREATED TO RELAY ALARM SIGNALSSYOSSET, N.Y. - A new network has been created tha

The battle over legislation admitting bankers into the insurance business in Delaware is not over, d

FUNDING TO RESUME FOR AMAZON HIGHWAYWASHINGTON - The Inter- American Development Bank said i

South Korea is expected to become a creditor nation by the end of this year, and it is already stepp