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In a bid to cut transit time to the East Coast and boost volume, one of Japan's largest steamship li

AN IMPORTANT SKIRMISH over economic and political goals took place this week, a small dispute that w

Harland & Wolff, the Belfast, Northern Ireland-based shipyard, reduced its 1987-88 deficit by 65 per

The Brazilian national steel company, Siderbras, apparently chose price over politics and ordered a

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The U.S. dollar pushed higher Thursday on the increase in the prime rate to 9.5 percent from 9 perce

A senior official with the cattle council of Australia Thursday expressed strong concern over news t

A flurry of trade and economic reports Thursday from some major U.S. trading partners indicate they

Retail sales, boosted by strong auto sales and hot weather-related buying at department stores, rose

Nearly 400 corporate executives who were asked to compare 31 cities as places to do business listed

The U.S. economy, which has expanded through the last five and a half years, is far from running out

* Customs Update 4A * Susan Aaronson - Crybaby Capitalism 8A* Carl P. Leubsdorf - Echoes of

Banks moved quickly Thursday to raise their prime lending rates to catch up with recent increases in

LINDE WINS CONTRACT FOR SEPARATION PLANTDANBURY, Conn. - The Linde division of Union Carbide

The outlook for U.S. importers of liquefied natural gas has brightened, and some gas pipeline compan

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

BARGE TRAFFIC MOVING SMOOTHLY ON US RIVERSKANSAS CITY - Barge traffic on U.S. rivers is movi

The Teamsters union's general executive board meets today in Washington to select a new president fo

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

PARIS COURT REVERSES RULING ON COKE PACTSA Paris appeals court has ruled that Atlanta-based

DUMPING PROBE SLATED FOR ELECTROLYTIC POWDERThe International Trade Commission cleared the w

MANAGEMENT TO BUY TOPLIS & HARDINGThe management of loss adjusters Toplis & Harding Inc. hav

Batus Inc.'s attempted hostile takeover of Farmers Insurance Group came to Kansas this week as a tob

Two key congressional committees unanimously approved legislation to implement the U.S.-Canada trade

Democrats are riding to Atlanta for their national convention on a wave of economic issues they hope

House and Senate leaders are presenting similar versions of what they say is long-overdue acid rain

Martinair Holland, a Dutch charter airline, is striving to broaden its American customer base. It pl

China has sanctioned markets for trading treasury bonds to try to stamp out flourishing black-market

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BRAZIL PLANS TO BOOST GRAIN, OILSEED OUTPUTBrazil - Brazil plans to raise 1988-89 (September

The United States has given a cautious welcome to new proposals on farm trade reform introduced Wedn

Compagnie Maritime Belge, the Belgian shipping and transport group, needs to triple in size by 1992

Japan's petrochemical industry currently is operating at nearly full capacity, according to a recent

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Teamsters union leaders and a dissident labor faction are warring over a proposed contract covering

Robert L. Hintz will leave behind him two intangibles plus 24 of the most tangible objects imaginabl

FAX COPIES OF CUSTOMS DELIVERY AUTHORIZATION DOCUMENTS. Effective immediately, the use and acceptanc

Mesta Engineering Co. of Pittsburgh is the correct name of the company in which Capital Iron & Steel

Xerox Corp. will add more dealers and offer them a broader office equipment product line in the comi

The recent award of two computer contracts has placed a relatively small company in the spotlight.