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NO CONSENSUS ON RATES BY GROUP OF SEVENLONDON - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Thursd

After-tax corporate profits fell 1.0 percent in the first quarter of this year, the worst performanc

A toxic cloud of burning phosphorus spewed from a derailed rail tanker and spread slowly across five

The European Community announced Wednesday it would take urgent action to reduce exports of toxic wa

The Federal Aviation Administration plans tests this summer of a new concept in air traffic control

The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. is wants to know if its customers want to start communicat

The Argentine central bank approved 15 of the 18 proposals put forward under the government's third

Japan and the United States are near agreement on a new project that both hope will double Japanese

Officials of the Japan Machinery Exporters' Association warned Thursday that the country will have t

CIPHER DATA, WANGTEK REACH SETTLEMENTSAN DIEGO - Cipher Data Products Inc. said it has reach

The U.S. dollar was narrowly mixed Thursday, rising slightly against the deutsche mark and falling m

Containerization began more than 25 years ago but many labor-management practices still have not cau

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

MORE HAGGLING IS IN STORE between shippers and truckers over the shippers' undercharge plan.

US-CHINA TRADE GROUP CHANGES ITS NAMEThe National Council for U.S.-China Trade has changed i

Latin American foreign ministers will meet in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca on Saturday with s

Personal savings as a percentage of disposable income dipped to 4.7 percent in the first quarter fro

More shots were fired Tuesday in what is becoming a bitter fight to control Pennwalt Corp., the Phil

AIR PRODUCTS HIKES CATALYST PRICEALLENTOWN, Pa. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. is raising al

The House Ways and Means Committee voted Thursday to extend the expiring tax credit for research and

BILL WOULD TIGHTEN SECURITY AT AIRPORTSSecretary of Transportation Jim Burnley has sent to C

Detroit Edison Co. on Wednesday, for the sixth time this month, reported record peak electricity dem

Amtrak's chairman and rail union presidents hotly debated the government- owned passenger line's bid

A strengthening peso and trade liberalization reforms have prompted a burst in import spending that

Lower fees for handling cargo at New York area docks may lead carriers to route more cargo through t

* Customs Update 4A * Craig Dunlap's Trade Talk 5A* Exports Reveal True US Health 8A

THE SPRING GLUT of trade and transportation conferences throughout the Southeast has come to a close

The government in Taiwan is preparing another official Buy American mission for September, having an

A government finance agency said it is canceling an announced US$910 million sale of a state-owned c

Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, introduced a second trade bill Thursday, stripped of both the controver

The International Petroleum Exchange Thursday managed a successful launch of its revamped futures co

In the Quota Watch column that appeared on June 14, the country for category 351 (nightwear & pajama

The Reagan administration raised its official forecast for 1988 economic growth and lowered its unem

Union Carbide Corp. announced that the company's board of directors has endorsed a restructuring of

Investors in a $770.5 million cellulose project are telling local suppliers to submit new, lower pri

The most pressing issue that exists between maritime officials in Korea and the United States has to

Arco Chemical Co. announced plans to build a 75 million-pound-a-year butanediol and derivatives faci

CIGNA CORP. (Philadelphia) - George R. Trumbull was named president of the Cigna Investment Group, a

Batus Inc. sued the California Insurance Department in an effort to reverse the state agency's refus

The Senate has put the brakes on what one member called A very, very sweet deal giving H. Ross Perot