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Current Textile Quotas: Where the Average Recent Utilization RateIndicates Full Quota Utiliz

Coleco Industries Inc. will have to intensify its cost-cutting and streamlining efforts to bounce ba

More beer and fewer pork chops are what the future holds for the average Chinese, the Department of

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

Japan May Maintain Beef Price SupportsThe Japanese government plans to maintain price suppor

A House Foreign Affairs Committee bill to impose much stiffer trade and investment sanctions on Sout

Whether the Senate will next week send the omnibus trade bill to the White House is uncertain, congr

Analysts said the Federal Reserve is likely to push up the Federal funds rate to 7 percent on today'

Commercial and multinational banks, industrial nations and less-developed countries all must share t

The United States Bureau of the Census soon will begin speaking in the electronic language of the pe

Preliminary results show that two of three joints on the redesigned space shuttle booster rocket did

The insurance policy at the center of massive antitrust lawsuits against the insurance industry neve

The new mood of confidence now starting to surface in the tanker market is enabling owners to addres

Guinness PLC, the huge British spirits and beer conglomerate, says it will cut shipping costs this y

A House committee ignored 11th-hour pleas from Texas Air Corp. Thursday and overwhelmingly passed a

This should be a very sweet year for CPC International Inc., according to the giant foods company an

Secretary of Transportation Jim Burnley Thursday proposed new regulations to deal harshly with rail,

While China has closed the gap between its coal supply and demand inrecentyears, it is likel

Due to computer difficulties the size of Thursday's and today's Journal of Commerce has been reduced

Congress has turned its back on a Reagan administration plan to sign a contract this year to lease a

Jose Gonzalez isn't one to profit from another's problems - except, perhaps, when those problems hur

London's shipping community is hoping that a new mobile telephone communication system installed on

Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB), Belgium's largest shipowner, increased consolidated profits by 1.7 p

Tenneco Inc. Reports Bigger Quarterly ProfitTenneco Inc., the parent of Newport News Shipbui

The Maersk Line has thrown out the gauntlet to competitors with the inauguration of a trans-Atlantic

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Despite some question marks over the project, Amoco Chemical Co. is pushingits bid for a purified te

U.S. sales of anti-oxidants are projected to grow 6.1 percent a year to $725 million in 1992, said A

Hercules Inc. announced capital investments of more than $60 million for a three-year program that w

With advice from a citizen's panel that it may not find the best new port director for $96,660 a yea

Metco Increases Modifier PricesRAHWAY, N.J. - Metco North America Inc., a joint venture of M

Soros Associates, New York-based consulting engineers, won the 1988 Engineering Excellence Competiti

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OOCL (Canada) appointed Don McKay regional general manager of Western Canada. He will be based in th

James R. Kelly announced he will retire next January as president of the Delaware River Port Authori

ADMITTEDLY SOMEWHAT IN SHOCK following last month's resignation announcement by Bill Edwards, execut

With containerized traffic continuing to grow, two of Hong Kong's terminal operators are investing m

A severe downward revision of British Columbia's economic gain from seasonal Alaska cruise ship traf

Southern California Edison Co., like other utilities in the state, has been stung by commercial and