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JAPANESE BANKS FREEZE CHINA LOANSTOKYO - Japanese banks have frozen two loans to China, incl

The U.S. Customs Service is expected to pre-clear some import cargo electronically for the first tim

The decade of Lee, Don and Roger is closing, and wherever auto industry cognoscenti gather these day

Nearly all of Britain's east coast ports are expanding in anticipation of the trade boom they expect

U.S. personnel at Island Creek Corp.'s China coal subsidiary have evacuated downtown Beijing, but pr

What do you do when millions of people have bought your cars but almost no one knows who you are?

CAN THE NATION'S RAILROADS SUSTAIN THE DEBT they're picking up through the acquisitions and mergers

In a reversal of the aphorism "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," container repair companies have com

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' oil ministers reached agreement Wednesday setting

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

HOECHST CELANESE CORP. (Sommerville, N.J.) - The company announced a reorganization and the retireme

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

International Coffee Organization producers and consumers still have sizable problems to overcome be

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese and expatriates took to the streets Wednesday in another massive bu

Textile production in China rose in the first quarter of this year, officials said Wednesday, but pr

A Senate bill to limit the number of lawsuits brought under federal racketeering law will rob state

Insurance company insolvencies occur worldwide, but the causes and methods of prevention are differe

Inland Steel Industries Inc., headquartered here, and Nippon Steel Corp. have agreed to form a secon

CONSUMER CREDIT ROSE IN APRILU.S. consumers took on $2.731 billion more in consumer installm

MARITIME INDUSTRY CEREMONIES honoring Journal of Commerce Publisher Don C. Becker last week were con

A Charlotte-based commuter airline that exists mainly to serve Piedmont Airlines and USAir said Frid

U.S. refineries broke another operating record this year, running at 89.8 percent of capacity for th

American Trucking Associations, fundamentals of hazardous materials, June 7-9. Minneapolis Hilton In

Neptune Orient Lines, the maritime flag carrier of Singapore, is celebrating a record profit with pl

Mexico and its commercial creditors said in a joint communique that they now envision "prompt agreem

An elusive book pirate has dealt Chicago-based Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. a surprising blow to it

Expatriates in the Chinese capital stepped up their attempts to get out Wednesday in the face of con

Two prominent U.S. insurance executives were named to head a new senior management team that will ov

If they could do it over again, top executives of Mazda Motor Corp. would provide their Japanese man

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NEW SUPERCONDUCTORS FOUND WITH LESS POWERRecent scientific findings indicate that new superc

MC Shipping Inc. has purchased a general cargo ship and a small containership for a total of $19.25

HOUSE PANEL REJECTS AIRPORT SECURITY BILLWASHINGTON, D.C. - A House committee rejected a bil

Transcisco Industries Inc. of San Francisco has signed leases for 514 rail tank cars to four petrole

CIBA-GEIGY AWARDS PACT TO FLUOR DANIELFluor Daniel, Irvine, Calif., a unit of Fluor Corp., s

Wed., June 7, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Heightened concerns about turmoil in China are sending U.S. cash cotton market participants to the s

KOREAN UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST SINCE 1987SEOUL, South Korea - The number of unemployed people i

The United States has set July 10 as an unofficial deadline for acting against Japan if Washington d

An Austrian bank is playing a central role in financing a variety of projects to develop the Soviet