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Raw sugar futures prices on world markets could slip 2 cents a pound to 10.50 cents a pound for the

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Grain and soybean traders Tuesday were not second-guessing the outcome of U.S.-Soviet Union grain ta

On Friday, as part of the Super 301 program, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will presen

The United States, worried that Japan might smother industries vital to U.S. national security, is s

CFTC SAYS RULES NEED STRENGTHENINGWASHINGTON - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has

Puerto Rican mangoes, long banned from the U.S. mainland, could soon reappear on the nation's superm

The modest trade surplus the United States has had with Britain in recent months disappeared in Marc

JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER Noboru Takeshita's announcement that he will resign comes at a very sensitiv

It's small but mighty. That's the immediate impression a first-time visitor gets of the La S

Car drivers aren't the only ones crying when they see prices rising at the pumps. Shipowners, for wh

The Customs Service's obsession with the war on drugs and its efforts to facilitate international tr

Even if Mickey Mouse were to assume the premiership of Japan following the promised withdrawal of No

Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher told Congress Wednesday that his department is intensifying its

TOYOTA TO BUILD PICKUPS IN THE USToyota Motor Corp. said it plans to move a substantial part

Fela Holding AG, Switzerland's largest printed circuit board manufacturer, acquired Inrad SA, a subs

CSX URGES SHIPPERS TO PREVENT DAMAGEBALTIMORE - CSX Transportation Inc. is asking paper ship

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. is negotiating independently with its two key train operatin

Mayne Nickless Ltd., an A$2 billion (US$1.6 billion) company with 35,000 employees in 800 branches i

Westwood Shipping Line, a subsidiary of the Weyerhaeuser Co., will be included in a company-wide sea

One of the New York port's major intermodal railyards may undergo a significant expansion currently

The Bowaters Amendment to the Jones Act permits a waiver of the law's citizenship requirement for a

TradeNet, the electronic data interchange system of Singapore, is about to be extended to more gover

International Business Machines Corp. can revive its stagnant U.S. sales and pull away from competit

Sun Microsystems Inc. is only seven years old, but the Mountain View, Calif., computer company burst

CONTROL DATA DROPS SUPERCOMPUTER CONTESTBLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Control Data Corp. is notifying

Almost two months of labor warfare at Eastern Air Lines has produced many casualties, and few winne

The construction of a standardized, international electronic network to allow computers to "talk" wi

OVER THE PAST several years, especially during the last 15 months or so, there has evolved an increa

Most Americans have probably never heard of Ladeco Airlines, except perhaps those shipping cargo to

In an effort to encourage widespread response to its call for bids to operate the Express Mail netwo

The Boeing Co. may not be able to build its jumbo 747-400s fast enough to meet a revised schedule th

Union Carbide Corp., Danbury, Conn., kept its winning streak going Monday, reporting that its first-

COAST GUARD DRAWS UP ANTI-DUMPING RULESThe Coast Guard has drawn up interim rules that ban t

Declining Brazilian purchases of U.S. wheat, due to a series of record Brazilian grain harvests, are

The 1990 farm bill that Congress is preparing to write should encourage farmers to use fewer pestici

The repeal of West Germany's withholding tax on interest income could go into effect as soon as July

SINGAPORE TRADE VALUE RISES TO $8.2 BILLIONThe total value of Singapore's trade in March was

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A central bank of Europe is at least five years off, said a leading West German security exchange of