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Garment exports to the United States earned 6.2 billion rupees (US$412 million) in the first 11 mont

CHINA SET RECORD FOR EXPORTS IN '88Chinese exports topped $40 billion in 1988, setting a rec

One of the colony's largest conglomerates is taking a 70 percent stake in a U.S. fashion house to cr

The Caribbean Basin Initiative, which allows goods from some 22 Caribbean countries to enter the Uni

The Supreme Court handed states a new source of tax revenue Tuesday, unanimously upholding Illinois

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION JUMPS 17.7 PERCENT IN CHINAChina's overheated economy saw 1988 industr

The Takeshita administration announced a Japanese economic growth target of 4 percent after inflatio

The Japanese imported a record 133,583 foreign manufactured autos last year, a whopping increase of

A modified Customs user fee and a bigger staff to handle complaints against low-priced imports are a

* Import Quota Watch 4A * Don C. Becker - Publisher's Notebook 18A* Craig Dunlap - Inside Ta

SURVEY: EXPECTATIONS ON SALES, PROFITS DOWNOverall expectations for first-quarter gains in s

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

This will be Congress' year of oversight on U.S. trade policy. After enacting two historic t

Crystal-ball-gazing has become a near obsession for Interstate CommerceCommission watchers,

The National Iranian Tanker Corp. has chartered at least half a dozen supertankers over the past wee

West Germany will impose tougher controls on exports with military applications, West German Economi

Libya may be developing biological weapons many times more dangerous than conventional nerve or must

Western central bankers have joined the fight against international crime, urging banks to make it h

The U.S. dollar pushed broadly higher Monday, and then declined in response to concerted dollar-sell

Share prices soared to close at a record high in heavy trading in Tokyo Monday, with bullish sentime

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

MARTIN VAN BUREN HAS BEEN GETTING more attention in the last few weeks than he has for a century an

Foreign investors are snapping up U.S. companies at bargain-basement prices, thanks to the lowered v

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Mon., Jan. 9, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

MITSUI MANUFACTURERS BANK (Los Angeles) - Claude J. Rumph, executive vice president, will manage the

In a parting shot at backers of the U.S. sugar program, President Reagan's fiscal 1990 budget, submi

SEN. KASTEN BLASTS PROPOSED BRAZIL LOANWASHINGTON - Sen. Bob Kasten, R-Wis., Monday said a p

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year1/9 1/6 Chan

Having soared to $3.60 a bushel in 1988, corn futures gave up about $1 during the fall harvest peri

Federal farm price support, credit and insurance and research program outlays would be cut to $15.9

REAGAN BUDGET HIKES CFTC SPENDING 8.8 PERCENTPresident Reagan's proposed federal budget woul

Fear that the U.S. government will go it alone in world trade is discouraging other countries from j

VIETNAM OPENS DOOR TO FOREIGN BUSINESSESBANGKOK, Thailand - Hanoi said on Monday foreign bus

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

Exports from Washington state will rise to new highs this year, but the state ultimately will face a

Economists and businesses say the death of Emperor Hirohito will have little impact on Japan's robus

Puget Sound ports fighting with each other not only should bury the hatchet, but should bury it in t

The top U.S. farmers' organization vowed on Sunday to fight the European Community's ban on their ex

PARTNERSHIP TO DEVELOP NEW STEEL TECHNOLOGYAllegheny Ludlum Corp. and Voest-Alpine Industrie