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In an effort to stir local business out of what many consider a dangerous complacency, an internatio

IF EVER THERE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED, it was this month's 13th annual joint me

Japan's current account surplus dipped 10.6 percent in September from a year earlier to $7.605 billi

ARGENTINA, SOVIET UNION REVIEW GRAIN PACTBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Senior officials from Arg

GORBACHEV POLICIES SHOW SIGNS OF PROGRESSMembers of the normally docile Supreme Soviet voted

* The European Commission postponed to Wednesday this week its decision on a single European car mar

EC PROBES COMPLAINT OF COPIER DUMPINGJournal of Commerce SpecialBRUSSELS, Belgium -

Ispat Group of India has leased the Iron & Steel Co. of Trinidad & Tobago in a major breakthrough in

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., asked the General Accounting Office to probe the Commerce Department'

R.J. Reynolds of the United States and two Chinese partners Friday began operations at China's first

REGIONAL BLOCS U.S.-Arab Commercial Relations: Prospects for 1989. Nov. 7. Downtown Hilton H

Net new orders for U.S.-built machine tools continued to run sharply above the 1987 pace in Septembe

China's first annual Technology Export Fair produced about 40 contracts with a total value of some $

Mexico's new government may propose a series of free trade pacts with the United States in steel, te

PEUGEOT IS ONCE AGAIN NO. 1 FRENCH EXPORTERPeugeot SA, France's largest privately owned indu

Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Manuel Johnson said the outlook for continued expansion of the U

Economic growth in the nation's largest cities appears to be rising fastest in the Midwest, accordin

Contracting for new construction will fall 4 percent next year to a total of $241 billion, said Geor

A study indicates that Vice President George Bush could not provide his Medicaid-related program to

* JofC Industrial Prices Index: Aluminum Trends 6A * Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 7A* B

Lack of adequate U.S. government support in promoting product standards in developing countries is h

The Commerce Department said in a preliminary determination that imports of anti-friction bearings f

The federal budget deficit widened to $155.10 billion in the 1988 fiscal year, which ended last mont

Many recent shipping investment deals have been sold to investors in a way that will frustrate rathe

Whether at home in his dormitory room at St. Joseph's University or in the middle of a bargaining se

The decision by U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter to reject an unfair trade practices petiti

Should world oil prices continue to fall, Japan's economy will easily step up its prolonged expansio

Western Europe is creeping toward a free trade zone in electricity where cross-border sales by utili

With political commitment to many of the ingredients of goals of the 1992 movement apparently weaken

Smaller biochemical and pharmaceutical firms may find significant opportunities for profit if they e

Major U.S. chemical manufacturers are virtually 100 percent in compliance with new rules on measurin

KOPPERS CHEMICALS UNIT TO BE SPLIT UP, SOLDBritish industrialist Brian C. Beazer said Thursd

Nova Pharmaceutical Corp. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a comprehensive ag

VINYL ACRYLIC UP AT REICHHOLDDOVER, Del. - Reichhold Chemicals Inc.'s Emulsion Polymers divi

Henkel KGaA, the fourth-largest West German chemicals group, is aiming to become the European market

W.R. Grace & Co. plans a $10 million expansion of its construction market- oriented research and dev

Formosa Plastics Group of Taiwan is expected to announce today a definitive go-ahead on a 680,000 m

The U.S. market for pultruded composites is expected to double from a current $258 million dollars t

CHEM SYSTEMS INC. (Tarrytown, N.Y.) - Marshall E. Frank, a director of CSG, was elected president an

NALCO CHEMICAL POSTS RECORD NET INCOMENAPERVILLE, Ill. - Nalco Chemical Co. reported record