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HOUSE PASSES BILL BARRING RETALIATIONWASHINGTON - The House passed legislation this week bar

Ken Oshman and other former executives of Rolm Corp. now at Ultra Network Technologies Inc. are intr

Compared with steamship lines' tariff rates, service contracts negotiated by shippers associations p

CSX/SEA-LAND LOGISTICS (Alexandria, Va.) - Treadwell Davison Jr. was named director, logistics analy

U.S. officials said they seized hundreds of thousands of hazardous imported toys in Operation Toylan

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

FRAUD IN CHINA TOTALS $10 BILLION IN 5 YEARSBEIJING - China's state auditors in the past fiv

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

Pfizer Inc. and California Biotechnology Inc. announced a planned $30 million, five-year venture to

Ten years after Congress required the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate polychlorinated bi

DOW REMOVES OXIDE ALLOWANCEMIDLAND, Mich. - Dow Chemical Co.'s USA unit announced the remova

The beleaguered microwave precision landing system could benifit greatly from a major government pus

Some of the nation's largest airlines have an unfair competitive advantagebecause they own t

The Inner Harbor of Baltimore has a very special significance here. The sea, more accurately the upp

AMERICAN CYANAMID FINED $560 FOR LEAKWALLINGFORD, Conn. - The federal government has fined A

Shipyards in South Korea, already laboring under mountains of debt and unprofitable contracts, are l

SAUDIS EXPORT WHEAT TO CHINA, SOVIET UNIONRIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia has exported m

A CONNECTICUT FARMER RECALLED some years ago the damage caused by a hurricane that ripped through Ne

Japan's foreign affairs minister and chief Cabinet secretary Thursday called on the U.S. government

Computers and couture may not at first glance seem closely allied, but two high-powered Hong Kong mi

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

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

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

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

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

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

With their currency losing ground rapidly in a spiraling inflation, Peruvians are buying up refriger

GATT OFFICIAL HEARS FRENCH TRADE CONCERNSFrench Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy said Thurs

The next E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. president, Edgar Woolard, has predicted that the chemical gia

Small package carriers in the future will have no choice but to provide international service, a Fed

DIFKO TO TAKE DELIVERY OF TANKER IN AUGUSTCOPENHAGEN, Denmark - Burmeister & Wain Shipyard s

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

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

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

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

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

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