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FMC OFFICE, BENEL SEEK OK ON SETTLEMENTA Federal Maritime Commission office and Benel Intern

Norasia Shipping Services SA, the Fribourg-based ship line active in the trades between Europe and A

Japanese officials presented a plan Wednesday designed to ease differences in the way Japan and othe

More liberal foreign trade laws that come into effect on April 1 will enable thousands of Soviet ent

US FACTORY ORDERS SEEN DECLINING 1.7 PERCENTU.S. February factory orders are expected to sho

Although Lech Walesa and Solidarity have dominated the news out of Poland in the 1980s, the country

British insurer Guardian Royal Exchange PLC disclosed Wednesday that its joint takeover with an Ital

A group of Kentucky business leaders will travel to China on a trade mission April 18-27 to learn mo

U.S. companies are showing signs of battle fatigue in coping with Latin America's markets as foreign

In a deal that would create the country's largest plant biotechnology company, Calgene Inc. of Davis

As tariff barriers fall and the local dollar soars, Taiwan's affluent consumers are snapping up U.S.

Japan's Fair Trade Commission is expected to approve by Friday an application for renewal of a new s

AMOCO CORP. (Chicago) - David Lemon, 46, was named manager of corporate planning. He will be respons

RAILROADS FEAR THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION decision on productivity sharing could have the ef

1631 (Mar. 29, 1989) Previous day - 1632 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The Port of Los Angeles, the leading center for imported cement on the West Coast, expects South Kor

Britain's international trade account plunged deeper into the red last month as the strong pound sta

Drought and freeze damage has led to a rush of crop insurance claims from Texas hard red winter whea

Britain's richest man will be on the lookout for more money when he visits Chicago next month.

Richard A. Levins, an agricultural and applied economist, has taken a playful look at his profession

The French trade balance in electrical and electronic goods plunged into deficit last year under pre

Strong cargo and passenger demand pushed after-tax profits at Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. 33 percent

Two competing French futures markets, the Matif and the Swedish-based OMF, have been given prelimin

Computerized communications offer far greater benefits to clothing retailers and manufacturers than

AMOCO PLANS TO CUT US STAFF BY 10 PERCENTAmoco Production Co. said Wednesday it plans to red

After some two years in the making, the great showdown between U.S. railroads and their labor unions

CLYDE PRESTOWITZ has been one of the main advocates of a more aggressive trade posture by the Unite

AGENTS' GROUP OPPOSES HOUSE'S CONSUMER BILLIn testimony before a Congressional subcommittee

As the Bush administration ponders its strategy, U.S. maritime executives remain fiercely opposed to

Though the national economy has been relatively strong over the last couple of years, employment in

In the somber hallways of the International Monetary Fund and the Treasury Department and in plush h

A committee of the Puerto Rico Senate met behind closed doors Wednesday in the first day of a politi

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker Wednesday called inflation "a perpetual concern" and pr

The U.S. Justice Department is dropping its opposition to ConsolidatedFreightways Inc.'s acq

PIEDMONT-UK PROGRAM MAY SPEED UK ENTRYCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Piedmont Airlines is working with U.

Wed., Mar. 29, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper said the oil spill in Prince William Sound might make it necessary to shut

In a Maritime Brief that ran in The Journal of Commerce March 29 on Page 4B, under the headline, "Ar

JUSTICE IS DONE WITHOUT ATTORNEYCHICAGO - A truck driver whose formal schooling stopped at e

Although Intel Corp. won an order barring imports of certain Korean and Japanese memory chips that i