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The Bush administration is about to make a series of key trade policy decisions involving steel, agr

Over the years, Tampa Bay's Port Manatee has had a reputation as a scrappy little port geared to the

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JAPAN TO PARTICIPATE IN SPANISH EXPOSITIONThe Japanese government will have a high-tech pavi

Huntsman Chemical Corp., the Salt Lake City-based styrenics producer, is emitting fresh signals of i

Hoechst Celanese Corp. and Hoechst Canada Inc. announced the consolidation of their crop protection

Dresser-Rand Co., a partnership of Ingersoll-Rand and Dresser Industries, announced that it received

International traders say a proposal to link Pacific Rim countries within a common market has merit

FREIGHTLINER TRUCKS KEEP TRACKS ICE FREEPORTLAND, Ore. - Freightliner Corp. said a pair of i

Northern Air Freight Corp. shareholders on Monday voted 88.4 percent in favor of a $17 million merge

A Senate transportation leader warned the nation's governors that Congress is likely to pre-empt som

Yasushi Sayama felt like he was "walking through a cultural mine field." The Hitachi America

The Federal Maritime Commission is beginning a probe into the cocoa tradefrom the Ivory Coas

JAPANESE FIRM SELLING ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE- A Japanese company is retailing a computer progra

Insurance is the latest sector of China's growing economy to come under the eye of regulators hoping

REVISED GNP DATA CALLED DISCOURAGINGThe revised figure on U.S. economic activity in the four

BRAZILIAN DOCKWORKERS PLAN TO STRIKE TODAYSAO PAULO, Brazil - Dockworkers at Brazil's Port o

Output of cotton in China fell in 1988 for the second straight year, and there are indications of a

A story in The Journal of Commerce Feb. 23 headlined, "Hvide Seeks Bids on Tanker From US Yards," on

Nippon Yusen Kaisha, a Japanese ocean and intermodal carrier, has rerouted the destination of some o

Recent increases in short-term interest rates shouldn't dramatically reduce the number of home sales

Just a few days after the Federal Reserve escalated the inflation fight by raising its discount rate

GEORGIA GULF TO MOVE PHENOL/ACETONE UNITGeorgia Gulf Corp. plans to to relocate the company'

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Japan's net creditor position will top $350 billion by the end of this year and is likely to exceed

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Facsimile machines, those beeping little devices increasingly used to send everythi

Commercial production has officially begun at Indonesia's first alluvial gold mine, one of scores of

Tue., Feb. 28, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

EMULSIONS National Starch & Chemical Corp.'s Resins & Specialty Chemicals division, Bridgewa

Australian Trade Minister Michael Duffy said he was more optimistic than ever that the United States

An umbrella group of U.S. steel manufacturers says it is ready to file international trade grievance

CALIF. BILL STRENGTHENS PROPOSITION 103SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Rep. Lloyd G. Connell

The Supreme Court found itself tangled in the thickets of the Railway Labor Act Tuesday, as the just

The Port of Baltimore's marketing and sales operations department is being reorganized, according to

Former U.S. Rep. Mario Biaggi's appeal of a 1987 illegal gratuities conviction was rejected Monday b

California Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie reportedly has asked the state for authorization

The insurance industry's "battle of the bosses" ended Tuesday with an overwhelming victory for Claud

American Airlines is the unofficial favorite in Australia to gain a license to fly into this country