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The United States and China signed a new maritime agreement Thursday that officials of both countrie

Canadian National Railways plans to inaugurate the first regularly scheduled double-stack service in

The official airline of Hungary has begun leasing three Boeing Co. jets, and Boeing says it is invol

U.S. pension funds are adapting a popular domestic investment technique to overseas markets: the loa

* Importers Say Customs' Fraud Probe Shows Hostility 4A * Vera Trojan - Questions on Coordin

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

South Korea will hold a major trade exhibition in Moscow next July to celebrate the opening of its f

The Indian Leather Products Association is seeking government blessing to establish a New York offic

SOUTH KOREA TO FREEZE STEEL EXPORTS IN '89SEOUL, South Korea - The government will freeze ex

The president of a leading trade association has accused the U.S. Customs Service of showing an atti

A stagnant textile sector and rising costs at home hammered the interim profit of Winsor Industrial

Following a sharp sell-off on the Commerce Department figures for the U.S. trade deficit, the U.S. d

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

Analysts said Taiwan's finance officials are being pressed to invigorate thedormant local bo

Romania, led by ultra-orthodox communist Nicolae Ceausescu, has paid back its debt at breakneck spee

BAHAMAS - $10 million from the World Bank for technical and vocational training, in particular in th

A new mutual fund made up of an index of natural gas industry stocks may be approved by the Securiti

Zaire, locked in a diplomatic row with its former colonial ruler Belgium, has ordered its state-owne

UK TO BUY BACK GILTS IN 'REVERSED' AUCTIONLONDON - The Bank of England plans to buy back 50

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Wed., Dec. 14, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Officials from three agricultural cooperatives will delay a proposed merger decision until January.<

Only a day after international trade talks opened last week in Montreal, Frans Andriessen, the Europ

CHINA BUYS US WHEAT UNDER SUBSIDY PLANWASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Ch

The Maritime Administration has released the first yearly report on shipbuilding costs and a second,

The sharp differences over farm subsidies that deadlocked last week's Montreal meeting of the Genera

A formula used by shipowners and oil companies to analyze the cost of moving petroleum products acro

As 50 members of the International Longshoremen's Association deep-sea labor union finish unloading

The earth's protective ozone layer is thinning more than expected in northern regions of the globe,

Waterfront employers on the East and Gulf coasts will resume contract negotiations with the Internat

Thousands of striking dockworkers demanding higher pay have paralyzed major Brazilian ports, authori

The Federal Maritime Commission has concluded it lacks jurisdiction to regulate agreements among oce

The expected approval of the U.S.-Canada trade agreement has already prompted one Canadian pulp manu

AIR PRODUCTS RAISES PRICESAir Products and Chemicals Inc., Allentown, Pa., raised prices for

Nippon Steel Chemical Co. is ready to establish a presence in the United States through the acquisit

Italian chemical giant Montedison Wednesday approved a plan to merge most of its chemical activities

The environmental mess that has plagued Eastman Kodak Co. for nearly a year may be more a result of

HIMONT CONSIDERS RESIN PLANT IN CHINAWILMINGTON, Del. - Himont Inc. said it will study the f

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Ingersoll Engineers Inc., Rockford, Ill., said it is leading a consortium of U.S. businesses in a bi