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Chemical companies, especially small- and medium-sized firms, should know more about each stage of t

BRAZILIAN DOCKWORKERS RETURN TO WORKSAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian dockworkers returned to wo

A proposed international treaty to control toxic waste exports is in jeopardybecause the Un

The government of Taiwan approved Thursday plans by state-owned Yang- ming Marine Transport Corp. to

Tall oil rosin production jumped 17.7 percent in January to 47.9 million pounds from December 1988 t

Singapore's petrochemical complex is about to get its first wholly new plant since it began operatin

EC MINISTERS AIM FOR TOTAL CFC BANBRUSSELS, Belgium - European Community ministers moved tow

CAUSTIC SODA Occidental Chemical Corp., Dallas, Texas, increased its list prices on all pack

All but one of a half dozen proposals that would have changed the face of ports in Washington state

RETAILERS REPORT HEALTHY SALES GAINSThe nation's major retailers today posted healthy sales

A cash crisis is forcing the International Maritime Organization - the United Nations agency that se

The U.S. Coast Guard said the United States and 65 other nations have adopted a new radio communicat

Alvin Zeidel knows it's the seemingly unimportant details that can bridge the gap between living and

A godsend $170 million shipbuilding order for Brazil's depressed Ishibras shipyard to build ships fo

The atmosphere was taut as the shareholders of Compagnie du Midi gathered earlier this week for a sh

Robert E. Merriman was elected president of the Acord Corp. at the group's annual meeting here this

Spurred on by the train derailment and fire in Akron, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, Wednesday urge

Xerox Corp. hopes a copier introduced Wednesday will save the encyclopedias, dictionaries and other

There is a spirit to Hong Kong that is immediately obvious to the most casual of visitors. I

The Bush administration is groping for new ways, other than trade re-prisals, to open foreign market

SETTLEMENT APPROVED IN OIL EXPLOSION CASEA judge Wednesday approved a $29.9 million settleme

Insurance insolvency protection funds in 13 states face losses of more than $200 million if, as expe

The 1.5 percent climb in interest rates since the beginning of the year has injected a rude dose of

The first of thousands of payments from the Agent Orange settlement fund have been mailed to the fam

A top insurance executive proposed a 2 percent tax on all commercial and industrial property/casualt

Agenor Monteiro, export manager at the New Jersey-based Wallace & Tiernan Division of Pennwalt Corp.

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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S ALLEGATIONS OF WRONGDOING in some Chicago futures pits don't seem to have caus

Chicago Board of Trade Chairman Karsten Mahlmann Wednesday called a trading system designed by anoth

Last year's settlement of a trade dispute with South Korea cleared the way for rapid growth in U.S.

The Ivory Coast's veteran Agriculture Minister Denis Bra Kanon may be the main victim of a governmen

SOUTH KOREA SHIFTING TO AUSTRALIAN WHEATAustralian exports of soft white wheat to South Kore

WORLD BANKERS TO MEET ON DEBT MARCH 15TOKYO - Bankers from Japan, the United States and Euro

Currency traders said they expect Japan to attempt to keep the dollar from declining below the 126-y

One hundred years after a Naples chef presented the queen of Italy with a patriotic pizza, purists a

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

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ANHEUSER-BUSCH HOPES THIS BUD'S FOR ICELANDREYKJAVIK, Iceland - St. Louis-based Anheuser-Bus

The Internal Revenue Service Thursday unveiled its rules for meeting non- discrimination tests for e