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Australia succeeded Thursday in winning international arbitration on its complaint that U.S. sugar i

Look for unmanned cranes and cargo gates, hatchless ships, subterraneanroadways, overhead ca

The Italian government on Wednesday announced that it will sue Italian companies that illegally expo

CONRAIL DIRECTORS APPROVE STOCK PLANPHILADELPHIA - Consolidated Rail Corp. said its board of

The House Energy and Commerce Committee moved to tighten some restrictions on bank insurance activit

The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed legislation Thursday that would bring sanctio

Two floating cranes worked for three days recently to retrieve large chunks of rotten wood from a 15

The Houston area breathed a collective sigh of relief as Hurricane Gilbert swept past last week. But

Japanese investors tested the U.S. stock market with net purchases in the second quarter, but most o

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

Led by optimistic retailers, U.S. business executives are looking for a strong fourth quarter, and t

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Sea-Land Service Inc. insisted the Navy's Military Sealift Command has the discretion to permit the

Could it be that there is another air fare war brewing? There certainly are signs of it out there.

A House subcommittee and the maritime industry leveled a withering fire of criticism Thursday on the

MILK PRICES INCREASE UNDER THREE PROTOCOLSMinimum prices set under the International Dairy A

A joint resolution introduced in the Senate Thursday would convene a bipartisan White House conferen

When commissioners from 26 Pacific Coast ports arrive this weekend in this small city at the edge of

Sept. 22, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange*PrevClose High

LVHM SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE NEW STRUCTUREShareholders of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Thur

Officials of General Motors Corp.'s Buick division said Wednesday they expect recent lackluster sale

Asia is fast becoming one of the world's major oil markets, consuming about 11 million barrels a day

The federal government's sea of red ink sloshed higher in August, but with only one more month of th

MANVILLE CORP. is anticipating the first Monday in October. That's the date when the U.S. Su

Uncle Sam is being asked to provide some financial security for George Steinbrenner. Mr. Ste

Trans Mountain Pipe Line Co. and Finland's Neste Oy have nominally decided to build a world-scale me

FEDERAL EXPRESS SETS DOMESTIC RATE INCREASEMEMPHIS, Tenn. - Federal Express Corp. has raised

Back in 1968, when Edson J. de Castro, now president of Data General Corp., asked Frederick R. Adler

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

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission revoked Chilmark Commodities Inc.'s license as an introduci

The U.S. State Department has declined to file a claim on its insurance policy covering its bugged M

Oil and trucking interests helped snuff out a proposal by Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., to boost the

CHINESE PLAN TO BUY FERTILIZER EQUIPMENTThe China National Technical Import & Export Corp. h

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

The United States Thursday told the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that it was ready to nego

Railroads must improve productivity substantially in order to justify investment in new equipment, s

American President Lines introduced an intermodal rail service in Thailand in attempt to avoid delay

The United States and its European trading partners remain far apart on solving disputes over a ban

Global American Television Inc., Colrain, Mass-based representatives of Soviet Television, said Thur

South Korea is angling for an investment-protection deal with China as trade and other commercial de