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Jamaica, the Caribbean's third-biggest textile exporter to the United States, will increase its U.S.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party completed the sweeping outline of a controversial tax reform

The Japanese government plans to double its development aid to poor nations to more than $50 billion

A coalition of companies from the United States, Japan and Europe released a report Tuesday urging t

Efforts to unite Europe have been alive for centuries. Napoleon and Hitler tried it by force.

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Howard Baker will resign as White House chief of staff and be replaced by his deputy, Kenneth Dubers

In Luxembourg, cars carry the first European license plates, featuring a replica of a blue-and-yello

The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Tuesday that he would find it very diff

If federal budget deficit estimates for fiscal 1989 were made today, a Gramm- Rudman spending cut wo

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TRADE BILL MINUS NOTICE PROVISION URGEDNearly 200 companies and trade associations issued a

The new tariff retrieval system recently unveiled by the TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement, whic

The U.S. merchandise trade deficit in April fell to its lowest monthly level since December 1984 - $

Sports nationalism is building around the world during these pre-Olympic days, but for the Americans

For the first time ever, a House committee has agreed on the terms of a product liability reform bil

Truck drivers and freight handlers at ailing Transcon Lines Inc. approved a landmark labor accord th

A federal arbitrator ordered Guilford Transportation Industries Inc. to rehire the almost 1,200 work

The Colombian government is scrambling to find alternate carriers to fly freshcut flowers to

The $400,000 award Monday in a product liability case against a tobacco company is being viewed by i

TOP STORIES: A delegation from Anhui, China will visit Los Angeles to exhibit its wares June

Insurance regulators must act quickly to develop guidelines for the federal catastrophic health-care

Insurance regulators approved a revised version of a model law aimed at curbing consumer abuses in t

JARDINE EMETT & CHANDLER INC. (San Francisco) - George W. Brown was named president and chief execut

LIABILITY DECISION SHOULDN'T HURT MERGERLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Batus Inc. says the recent tobacco

Insurance policy applicants would have to know and agree to be tested for AIDS if a model law is app

The Trans-Pacific Westbound Rate Agreement expects its new electronic rate retrieval service, called

Steel production fell to 1.944 million tons in the week ended June 11, a decrease of 1.3 percent fro

The government of Thailand has approved the purchase by Thai Airways International of four McDonnell

The traditional sounds of a Japanese breakfast - the slurping of miso soup and the crunching of pick

Ten more state attorneys general Tuesday joined nine colleagues in pursuing antitrust suits against

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The British government reportedly is throwing its weight behind Imperial Chemical Industries PLC's b

Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line) beginning July 1 will expand its vessel capacity and frequency of cal

The major challenge facing U.S. chemical producers is to change the public's perception of the dark

Polysar Ltd. is realizing $5 million to $10 million in yearly operating profits as a result of a rev

Sea-Land's top brass and Louisiana's maritime bigwigs touted the carrier's new Americas-class servic

Dow Chemical U.S.A. is increasing prices for several product lines, effective July 1. Among the incr

A storm in the Gulf of Mexico last week damaged a container gantry crane headed for Port Everglades,