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The first test of the four-month-old Canada-U.S. free trade agreement will come in the next few mont

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

For the third time in the first four months of 1989, net new orders for U.S.-built machine tools in

ISOSTEARIC ACID Union Camp Corp., Wayne, N.J., on Friday announced a price increase of 5 cen

Truckers seeking an increase in tandem-trailer weight limits on the Massachusetts Turnpike face stro

U.S. business leaders said they were pleased with the administration's naming of Japan, Brazil and I

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

TRUMP PLANS UPGRADE OF EASTERN SHUTTLENEW YORK - Developer Donald Trump, poised to take the

Stena Holding AG of Sweden has found a British company as partner in its $824 million takeover bid f

Japan will urge the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to reject outright the "Super 301" provis

The Thai government says a computer system is being planned to speed up cargo clearance at Bangkok's

AMERICAN GENERAL SELLS P/C SEGMENT TO ZURICHAmerican General Corp. has completed the previou

Frustration, shortages and want. Even in Moscow and Leningrad, two of the wealthiest Soviet cities,

Intellectual property protection will be a prime topic as U.S. and Yugoslav businessmen gather this

"They were forced to eat their words." If Continental Baking Co. wants to celebrate the 70th

The following eight countries were named by President Bush to the "priority watch list" of nations f

BUSH HOPES TO BLOCK SHOREHAM CLOSINGThe Bush administration will do all it can to block effo

Finance ministers and other top officials from the industrial countries are likely to play down the

Thu., May 25, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Britain's ports face a future of mixed fortunes once restrictive employment laws are abolished.<

The U.S. decision last week to target Japan as an unfair trader under the Super 301 provision of las

The U.S. merchandise trade deficit on a balance-of-payments basis narrowed to a seasonally adjusted

United Parcel Service will spend $30 million to expand the flight training facility at its national

MOBIL'S JAVA OIL FIND HAS GOOD POTENTIALJAKARTA, Indonesia - A subsidiary of Mobil Oil Corp.

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

The container boom at the Port of Halifax on Canada's east coast is continuing, with first quarter f

Union Pacific Corp. said it accepted about 11 million shares of its common stock at $73 a share unde

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has scheduled a public hearing for June 6 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,

JAPAN'S CHIP MAKERS PLAN MORE INVESTMENTJapanese electronics companies will step up their in

A state judge last week stayed a Suffolk County law that would have banned retail food stores from p

The Federal Maritime Commission has decided to begin a formal investigation of shipping conditions i

After years of sagging sales, phosphate - a key ingredient in fertilizer and livestock feed - is reb

May 26, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Seventeen years ago, when Phillip H. McCall graduated from Atlanta's Morehouse College with a degree

A prolonged strike by U.K. dockworkers could tighten cereal supplies as animal feed manufacturers sw

Navy officials are investigating two serious cracks in the outer steel hull of a Los Angeles-class n

President Bush's meeting today with Jacques Delors, president of the European Community Commission,

Consumer food prices are rising faster than predicted a few months ago and may gain an average of 5

Granny Goose Foods Inc. is introducing a pair of snack foods that it hopes will make it a household

The rapid expansion of International Shipholding Corp. is quickly making it popular with investment