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Controversy over access to data has sparked a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Customs Service.<

A key meeting on the future of the shipping conferences serving the U.S. West Coast-Europe trades fa

Henkel KGaA plans to increase its Latin American activities by investing 160 million deutsche marks

GLAXO INC. (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) - Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, a sales and marketing division of

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Thursday gave the go-ahead to abinding referendum v

A proposed constitutional amendment to require the Legislature to set up an affordable state health

Japan's Finance Ministry plans to tighten controls aimed at preventing investors from trading under

Three merchant banks, one of them American, were named in court Thursday as eight present and former

IT WASN'T FRIDAY THE 13TH, but it must have seemed like that unlucky day to politicians and some eco

Crowds of young women huddled around colored drawings of American-style dresses in the city's larges

While U.S. industry still holds the edge in some chip-processing technologies, concern is mounting t

Itel Corp. has entered relationship negotiations with American President Companies in an effort to d

Conrail provided the Port of Baltimore with some good news and some bad news Wednesday during a trad

IS THERE LIFE AFTER THE CROP REPORT? Well, yes, say grain analysts who have lived and breathed all s

President Reagan Thursday signed into law a multibillion-dollar package of aid to help bail out U.S.

SOUTH KOREA LIFTS BAN ON FRENCH FRY IMPORTSSouth Korea has lifted an import ban that would h

International Distillers & Vintners Ltd. and Seagram Co. announced Thursday that they will coordinat

Two Soviet commercial banks have been founded in Leningrad in a new development in the Kremlin's eco

President Reagan's proposed $14 billion contribution to the World Bank hinges on a last-minute congr

Major U.S. banks Thursday raised their prime lending rate to 10 percent, the highest level in three

The Maritime Administration will allow Donald E. Oline of Tacoma, Wash., to sell for scrap the 43-ye

Aug. 11, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High

A large cotton warehouse is moving from the Port of Oakland to San Francisco, giving the Port of San

Royal Insurance and Groupe Victoire, two of the largest insurers in Europe, have called off discussi

PHILIPP BROS. BUYS IVORY COAST COCOALONDON - Philipp Bros. has bought 5,850 metric tons of c

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

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Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., Syracuse, N.Y., said it had ended the series of rolling blackouts that a

Unfortunately, travel today comes with built-in risks for any traveler preparing for a trip.

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

America's most ubiquitous contribution to world consumerism - the credit card - reached the world's

TOKYO STOCK PRICES BOUNCE BACK SHARPLYTOKYO - Stock prices rallied sharply Thursday as the y

NATIONAL CARGO BUREAU INC. (New York) - Capt. Milton L. Gaasland was named non-exclusive surveyor at

Fisher-Price Toys of East Aurora, N.Y., ships about 95 percent of its Far East import business with

Negotiations on a $500 million sulfur mining project in the Philippines are nearly complete between

WEIGHT FEE, GAS TAX HIKES EYED IN CALIF.SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California State Senate was

Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. has withdrawn a critical federal court appeal, a strong indicat

A Chicago-area congressman has proposed legislation that would mandate a settlement in the labor-man

Toshiba Machine Co., whose illegal exports to the Soviet Union drew sharp criticism from the West la

INCORRECT DUTY RATES IN SUPPLEMENT TWO OF TARIFF SCHEDULES OF THE U.S. (Public Bulletin 88-108, Los