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Most major Japanese textile companies have eliminated or reduced the spinning of silk from cocoons t

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

COMMISSION TO REVIEW US FREE TRADE PACTThe International Trade Commission will gather views

FILING AND PROCESSING OF DRAWBACK ENTRIES: LOS ANGELES DISTRICT. The broker/filer is respons

Motorola Inc. apparently is planning a huge semiconductor plant in China. Officials at the l

Prospects for a tax bill that includes relief to non-highway diesel users and other business tax cha

Retail sales, dragged down by a sharpest drop in auto sales in 10 months, declined 0.2 percent in Au

Prospects for agricultural trade reform at the midterm review of the ongoing multilateral trade talk

France's efforts to protect its domestic carmakers could obstruct European Community plans for a gen

THAT TAX BILL, which began as a technical corrections measure, may be going up in a puff of smoke, a

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 300,000 people during the week end

BUSH SUPPORTS PETITION FILED BY RICE INDUSTRYVice President George Bush expressed support fo

U.S. factories, utilities and mines operated at 83.7 percent of capacity in August, after adjustment

Early September sales of domestically made cars and trucks were down 9 percent from a year earlier,

* Customs Update 4A * Howard Simon - Simon Says 6A* Harry Lamar - Polishing the Trade Figure

Employers owe billions of dollars in unfunded promises to pay retiree health benefits, according to

With the Iran-Iraq war over, Western companies are eager to participate in the postwar reconstructi

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Japanese steamship companies, beset by a range of woes for the past few years, are in a recovery pha

Thousands of independent insurance agents are meeting in Boston to discuss the shrinking of their in

The International Longshoremen's Association reopened for negotiation the final year of its current

As the oil and shipping industries along the U.S. Gulf coast scrambled to evacuate workers and brace

An official with campaign of Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis vehemently denied Thu

Foreign competitors are stepping up their challenge to the U.S. aircraft industry right on its own t

Total man-made fiber shipments in July reflected a seasonal decline and fell 61 million pounds, or 8

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' crude oil production averaged 19.91 million barre

Sept. 15, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

Irrefutable evidence of fraud exists in the insolvency of Mission Insurance Co. in 1987, a reinsuran

Oil prices retreated Thursday after their substantial run-up on Wednesday as it appeared Hurricane G

Iraq's oil minister was quoted on Thursday as saying his country would not reduce its oil output bec

Alabama-based Drummond Ltd. announced it signed an agreement with the Colombian government that clea

NYMEX HIKES MARGINS ON OIL AND GASOLINEThe New York Mercantile Exchange raised the margins o

The Aluminum Company of America says a profit-sharing plan involving 7,000 white-collar employees in

Marine underwriters face another sustained period of unprofitability unless they take action to arre

CORROON & BLACK CORP. (New York) - James A. Finkelstein was named president and chief executive offi

FBI agents in New Orleans have arrested a convicted swindler who allegedly conspired to use $10 mill

DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHIEF IN NY OFFERS INSURANCEROCHESTER, N.Y. - New York state's Democratic P

Brazil's new constitution could spell chaos for the economy if all its clauses are strictly applied,

The U.S. dollar declined slightly Thursday in extremely quiet trading. Dealers said central