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US HELD HAMPERING TRADE TIES WITH CHINAA senior Chinese official, in unusually blunt critici

The United States will police European Community plans to create a common internal market by 1992 to

Canada's powerful pulp and paper industry strongly backs the U.S.-Canada free trade deal scheduled f

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. wants to cut its basic interstate long- distance rates by an aver

When Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Washington representative goes into a congressman's office to urge som

Hong Kong's new stock exchange council Tuesday named its chairman and chief executive, ending a near

With this summer's drought, and votes to provide large disaster payments to farmers still ringing in

ALLEGHANY ADVANCES ON ST. PAUL STOCK BIDAlleghany Corp. announced Tuesday that its applicati

Agriculture officials in five Caribbean islands are developing plans to fight the possible damage th

Oct. 18, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

CHEVRON, MOBIL HIKE POSTINGS BY 75 CENTSChevron U.S.A. increased by 75 cents a barrel its po

Steel production fell to 1.797 million tons in the week ended Oct. 15, a decrease of 2.1 percent fro

The next president must take major steps to turn around a U.S. economy destabilized by an entrenched

W. GERMANY TO WIDEN ITS SOVIET VENTURESBONN, West Germany - West Germany hopes to launch maj

Sharp Offers Laptop With Graphics DisplayNEW YORK - Sharp Electronics Corp. has introduced a

ABF FREIGHT OPENS NJ, IND. TERMINALSFORT SMITH, Ark. - ABF Freight Systems Inc. recently ope

A lot can go wrong in the tricky business of ship chartering. Contracts can dissolve into no

Buy a square yard of France for about $1.50 and drive the railroad bureaucrats crazy while lending a

Ciba-Geigy Corp., a Swiss-based manufacturer of dyes and epoxy resins, is under heavy public critici

A state judge dismissed a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp. that sought $1 billion in damages for

AIDS, already a problem for the life and health insurance industries, now is producing workers compe

Noel Phillips, president and chief executive of Volkswagen of America Inc., the West German carmaker

A year since the world's stock markets crashed, the mood in Asia's biggest exchanges is one of quiet

SOUTH AFRICA UNVEILS HOMEMADE PISTOLPRETORIA, South Africa - A weapons manufacturer Tuesday

Venezuelan tuna fishermen say they will comply with a ban on the slaughter of dolphins, and American

A national conglomerate is now controlling China's onshore oil and natural gas exploration and produ

Crowley Maritime Corp.'s diversity is especially evident in the company's Pacific Division, where se

With sunset still an hour away, the pilot made a quick check of his 5,000 passengers, then rolled do

A foot-long crack and 29 smaller ones were discovered by chance on a Continental Airlines Boeing 737

$1 BILLION BA ORDER TARGETS BOEING, GELONDON - British Airways is ordering more than 35 new

Oil field equipment, project cargo and agricultural relief cargo are the major items moving on a new

Troubled Guilford Transportation Industries Inc. has spurned a purchase offer by two other New Engla

GIBRALTAR SAVINGS (Simi Valley, Calif.) - Eldon R. Richardson was named assistant chief lending offi

AMERICAN CYANAMID POSTS RISE IN EARNINGSWAYNE, N.J. - American Cyanamid Co.'s third quarter

OCCIDENTAL MUST SELL TENNECO, JUDGE RULESOccidental Petroleum Co. was ordered Tuesday to sel

Crude oil prices will fluctuate between $12 and $16 a barrel in the next five weeks, and unless the

Electricity output continues its strong growth for the year, showing a 5.1 percent increase for the

Chevron Co. USA says it plans to drill an exploratory oil and gas well this winter from an ice islan

Less than a month after landing a breakthrough computer deal with China, AST Research Inc. of Irvine

Some U.S. aid to Egyptian and Pakistani government agencies undercuts the Reagan administration poli