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U.S. Customs Service officials say they are stepping up their efforts to slow the increasing amount

Health-care costs will continue to escalate unless medical care is rationed or patients are required

The latest North Carolina World Trade Index, which measures the state's ''trade balance," shows that

A newly issued consultant's report predicts that the cost of building new merchant ships will climb

Japanese government and industry officials are baffled and irritated by U.S. threats of retaliation

The Japanese worked an average 2,100 hours in fiscal 1988-89 (April-March), a drop of 0.8 percent or

Expansion of private and public health insurance to the nation's 37 million uninsured is ill-advised

The leader of a dockworkers' union said his members might stop unloading ships from drug-producing c

Shipping lines have a limited number of alternatives to using the Panama Canal in the event of a clo

The U.S. Customs Service is staging a teach-in for Asian shipowners late this month on tough penalti

The U.S. dollar slipped slightly Tuesday but retained a firm tone in the face of dollar-selling inte

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will ask President Bush for details of his proposed clean air legislat

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

When U.S. cigarette makers went after the China market a decade ago, they envisioned a billion Chine

IRAQ TO PRODUCE GM, MERCEDES VEHICLESBAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq has agreed with Mercedes Benz and

NORTH AMERICA Export Pacific '89. May 15-17. Civic Auditorium. San Francisco, Calif. Second

Two European Commission officials outlined their views on the liberalization of the European air tra

European officials Tuesday threw the ball back in the U.S. court with a warning against the creation

The international boom in animal smuggling has turned the storage room at this country's busiest "po

As the strike gripping Eastern Airlines approaches the end of its second month, boss Frank Lorenzo i

YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE COMPANY, experts on EDI standards tell insurance industry executives. T

Aerofex Corp. of Beverly Hills, Calif., has received preliminary Joint Aviation Regulation certifica

Lockheed Electronics Co. has developed an on-board computer system that can detect stresses on criti

A unit of China's state-owned aviation agency is taking a 26 percent stake in the airport ground-han

American Airlines has filed with the U.S government for authority to fly passengers and cargo betwee

A 1982 drunk driving case has uncovered a set of internal State Farm Mutual Insurance Cos. guideline

TREASURY HOLDS OFF ON EQUAL BENEFIT RULESThe Treasury ordered a delay in implementing tax re

NOVATO, Calif. - William M. McCormick, chairman, president and chief executive at Fireman's Fund Ins

* Import Quota Watch 4A * Commodity Research Bureau: Wheat 10A* Albert L. Kraus - Markets an

The 20 attorneys general who are suing dozens of insurance organizations for allegedantitrust violat

The U.S. dollar advanced broadly Monday to a seven-month high against the yen and a four-week high a

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

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

CAN THE FED USE OPEN MOUTH POLICY as effectively - or more so - as an open market policy? That is on

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

BANK BRANCH TARGETS IMPORT FINANCINGNEW YORK - First New York Bank for Business, formerly Fi

Growth in the young waste-to-energy industry is exceeding expectations and the industry will more th

Continuing global and domestic imbalances pose increasing risks to financial and economic stability,

Production of reinforced thermoplastic composites - the wonder plastic used in Corvettes and the Ste

Mon., May 1, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.