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MEXICO CONSIDERS 20 PERCENT DUTY ON US HOGSThe Mexican government, in an attempt to drastica

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NITL OPPOSES RULE ON EFFECTIVE TARIFFSThe National Industrial Transportation League is suppo

Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke cautioned Monday that further economic reprisals against Chin

South Korea's latest effort to find viable oil deposits off its coast ended in frustration last week

A novel method of disposing claims has helped Investors Insurance Co. of America get back on its fee

Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner has put U.S. airline executives on notice that his departmen

Some small Caribbean-based airlines are unfairly tapping the huge American air cargo market, says th

The dollar continued to push broadly higher Monday, largely because of a major selloff in the Britis

After making new contract lows earlier this month, corn futures were sharply higher last week, with

Having maintained a low profile in regard to China's crushing of the pro- democracy movement, the go

WORLD BANK TO DEFER FURTHER LOANS TO CHINAThe World Bank has decided to defer indefinitely f

The Supreme Court handed businesses and their insurers a major legal setback by ruling that the cons

The domination of an airport by a single airline is either a blow or a boon to competition, dependin

An attorney representing the American Trucking Associations says he is pleased with a ruling upholdi

A new liner shipping service between the U.S. East Coast and the eastern Mediterranean will be start

SENATE APPROVES BILL TO DEREGULATE GASThe Senate Thursday night approved a compromise bill t

Trying to stave off mounting concerns over their product's contribution to the nation's solid waste

Railroads and their investment bankers clashed with labor unions and state regulators last week over

The Federal Maritime Commission is demanding that the Taiwanese government take action to speed up d

Great Lakes freight rates may soon be increased, a development that would bolster the competitivenes

The latest proposal for a referendum on New Jersey's ailing car insurance system is from Sen. John L

The Port of Tacoma is helping to launch a new kind of export trade that it believes will be easy as

IBM Corp. said it's already producing an advanced component deemed crucial to future electronics pro

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

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The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

State-owned Philippine Air Lines posted a profit of 302 million pesos (US$14 million) in the fiscal

About 4 million barrels of Brent system North Sea crude oil may not be shipped in July following del

THE ROLE OF RAILROAD public relations executives has changed in recent years. Increasingly,

It's the third straight cargo preference victory for the maritime industry in recent weeks, and perh

MCDONNELL UNIT PLANS FOR SALE OF TELECHECKST. LOUIS - McDonnell Douglas Information Systems

Principles of EDI, three-day seminar, July 12-14. Santa Clara, Calif. Contact: Terri Carlton, EDI Ed

Ocean carriers that follow the Maritime Security Council's newly adopted ethics code and later get f

The Bush administration may halt the longstanding policy of loaning Third World countries money to b

The colonial government is lodging formal action with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ove

DURABLE GOODS ORDERS DECLINED 4.2 PERCENT IN MAYDurable goods orders fell a sharp 4.2 percen

In the year plus since the roof ripped off an Aloha Airlines jet and a flight attendant plunged to h

As sunlight burns through the night in Iceland, fish are being flown fresh to markets in the United

JAPANESE QUESTIONING PAYMENT TO BOEING CO.Japanese opposition members of parliament are ques