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Montecristo cigars from Cuba. Enough Chinese fireworks to light up a holiday, or blow up a house. Ca

Five years ago, Electrolux Corp. took a look at its products and its plants and decided it was suffe

A new logistics study, called "Leading Edge Logistics: Competitive Positioning for the 1990s," is av

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Wheat futures have been boosted by projected U.S. wheat ending stocks in 1988-89 of 534 million bush

PROSPECTS DIM AGAIN FOR ARGENTINE SOY CROPBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's drought-batt

A consumer watchdog group Monday announced a campaign to tighten federal pesticide laws, saying a st

REICHHOLD ACQUIRES FORMER KOPPERS PLANTBRIDGEVILLE, Pa. - A major Japanese-owned chemical pr

Ethylene prices will fall dramatically in the years ahead as new capacity begins to come on line, ac

The shipping routes from the United States to Asia span 5,000 miles of open sea. But American produc

Swiss police arrested four Argentine nationals Monday and charged them with trying to extort $10 mil

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A tanker truck overturns on a busy highway in an urban area and immediately burns. The drive

Feb. 27, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The government has urged Japanese oil companies to buy less from Iran as a result of the Salman Rush

Six oil producing countries that are not members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countrie

Any moves to escalate the Salman Rushdie affair into a full-scale trade war would rock the Iranian e

Colombia will temporarily freeze oil exports to cooperate with the Organization of Petroleum Exporti

The Tennessee Valley Authority said its weekly spot coal purchases fell to only 1,000 tons during th

NORWEGIAN OIL EXPORTS FORECAST TO RISE IN '89Norway's oil exports in 1989 are provisionally

China has discovered six new oil fields with reserves estimated to total 14 billion barrels of crude

W. GERMANY WEIGHS NEW ROAD-USE TAXFRANKFURT, West Germany - The West German Federal Cabinet

The United Transportation Union's ratification of a tentative accord reached earlier this month with

Transcon Inc. earned $142,000, or 2 cents a share, in the fourth quarter compared with a year-earlie

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

CHINESE BUSINESSMEN ORDERED OUT OF KOREASEOUL, South Korea - The Justice Ministry has refuse

For the week ended Feb. 18, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Chevron Shipping Co. said last week that it ordered four new tankers from shipyards in Brazil and Ja

World trade grew at its fastest rate in four years in 1988 and looks set for record growth this year

The chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee wants the Bush administration to r

A Peruvian research ship ran aground in the Antarctic, and most of its 53 crewmembers and scientists

An international standard for the next generation of larger shipping containers is still a long way

Nine African ambassadors huddled with executives from the M.W. Kellogg Co. last week as part of an u

Japan has decided to alter its monitoring of overseas computer chip prices, one of the key provisio

The political comeback of Michael Manley, sworn in this month as prime minister of Jamaica, reflects

Grand Metropolitan PLC, one of Britain's largest international companies specializing in drinks, foo

FRANCE REPORTS PRICES ROSE 0.4 PERCENT LAST MONTHFrench consumer prices in January rose by 0

American Transport Lines Inc. is scheduled to handle its first ship Thursday at the Port of Philadel

AMINES Hoechst Celanese Corp.'s Fine Chemicals division (formerly Virginia Chemicals), Ports