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The U.S. government raised a potential challenge Thursday to the European Community on a basic trade

YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT REBUFFS IMF ON WAGESBELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Yugoslavia may have to declar

WINTER'S CHILL SENDS THOUGHTS OF WARMER CLIMES. For Chicago and New York futures industry people, Bo

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

The famed luxury liner United States, idle for nearly 20 years at a Norfolk berth, may have to leave

An educational seminar on the responsibilities of ship operators under U.S. anti-drug smuggling laws

WORLD ECONOMY CONTINUES TO EXPANDThe world economy continues to expand at a constant rate, t

U.S. agencies dealing with this country's territorial waters say they see no important changes for s

Chen Yin-Chen's distrust of the Taiwan government was forged in bloody protests against brutal repre

An international treaty that will ban ships from dumping plastics at sea goes into effect this weeke

WHAT IT IS: A daily publication of U.S. government procurement invitations for transportation and sh

U.S. crude oil production is expected to decline by 3 percent next year and an average of 1 percent

BOLIVIA - $9.7 million from the World Bank's International Development Association to improve the ef

BANK OF BOSTON (Boston) - Clark W. Miller was named executive vice president and group executive for

With a new on-dock railyard in operation and a new $12 million auto center being developed, the Port

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Braniff Inc. has aircraft acquisition deals in the works that could more than double the Dallas-base

South African Marine Corp. said it has chosen a South African dry dock for the first time to perform

CANAL LOCKS GARNER HONORS IN NY CONTESTALBANY, N.Y. - The New York Department of Transportat

A continuing export boom will help further shave the U.S. merchandise trade deficit next year, the C

The coming year should be another good one for U.S. manufacturing, transportation and other industri

International airlines and air freight forwarders are screening cargo extremely carefully in order t

Faced with the announced departure of one major carrier and the likely resignation of another, the p

Section 936 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, which exempts U.S. companiesfrom paying feder

The prospect of stricter air quality controls is stirring up the coal industry in the Pacific Northw

The nation's insurers will show good profits in 1989, but increasing price competition and legislat

It will be months before the U.S. Department of Agriculture begins to estimate the size of 1989 farm

US PROBES RESTRICTIONS ON COPPER EXPORTSThe United States will investigate export restrictio

Some restaurateurs have to struggle to stay afloat. George Butch Corne would just like to get his re

A survey of senior business leaders identified Atlanta as the most desirable city to locate a busine

New York state's unemployment rate for November rose slightly to 4.3 percent, state Labor Department

Not long ago, Tanzania appeared on the verge of being entombed in the African economic burial ground

CHEVRON INCREASES CRUDE OIL POSTINGSChevron U.S.A. Inc. said increases in the posted price i

Inventories of both gasoline stocks and distillate fuel declined moderately, the American Petroleum

The sale of Cigna Corp.'s Individual Insurance Products division to an InterContinental Life Corp. s

Two former General Motors Corp. workers have won a rehearing of their pension rights case in a dispu

A French agricultural cooperative insurance group has unveiled a plan to expand abroad. The

Traffic Club of Philadelphia. 81st annual dinner. Jan. 10. Rep. James Florio, guest speaker. Hershey

Centaur Partners, the New York investment firm whose $700 million offer to buy Pennwalt Corp. was re

AMOCO PICKS KELLOGG TO DO PLANT STUDIESAmoco Chemical Co. of Houston said it chose M.W. Kell