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Commerce Secretary C. William Verity urged Chinese leaders Monday to improve China's trade and inves

This index alphabetically lists all companies and other operating organizations such as ports mentio

For February 1988 vs. February 1987 (In Metric Tons - Via Ocean)Rank CommodityFeb. 8

Larry Ripley had just steered his tank truck into a Howard Johnson's hotel parking lot not far from

Staley in Buy-out Talks To Thwart TakeoverROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.- Staley Continental Inc., a

A Belgian laboratory has developed a sugar beet that resists herbicides, claiming it will represent

The Defense Ministry plans to take over the La Seyne shipyard on the Mediterranean, one of the three

A new Minnesota law that will ban plastic foam packaging made with chlorofluorocarbons isn't creatin

There are four key market trends that will fuel growth of engineering thermoplastics well into the 1

Federal Express Corp. has postponed indefinitely inauguration of express package service to Tokyo un

El Al, the Israel government-owned airline, appears to have turned the corner. In 1988, for

Hewlett-Packard Fails In Move vs. HyPointCLEVELAND - The United States Court of Appeals in C

The Bundesbank is likely to breach its 1988 growth target of 3 percent to 6 percent for its broad mo

AVIATION Air courier companies are increasingly concerned about their unwitting participatio

California ports have lined up solidly against a proposal to install a truck regulating system to de

U.S. District Judge Richard Owen rejected a plea to move a $92.8 million dispute over a decimal poin

Competitors have grudgingly called Ford Motor Co.'s decision to build its popular Cargo commercial t

Truckers seem resigned to the fact that shippers tucked into tiny outposts overseas will pack a cont

Soybeans Sunflower seed and soybeans. A trading firm with total annual volume of imports up

When the representative of a Peruvian firm arrived to pick up his package, Hector Orlansky, the pres

The participants at next month's summit in Toronto of seven leading industrialized nations have agre

Confidence is starting to return to the shipping market for grain and other dry cargo after a six-we

TOP STORIES: The drop in the value of the dollar against the yen may be making the state of

May 9, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

South Africa Finds Oil Off Southern CoastJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South Africa, which mu

Motorists nationwide are paying an average of a dollar-a-gallon for gasoline, a jump of more than a

EDI CAN BRING A QUASI-RELIGIOUS experience - at least, if the U.S. Bureau of the Census experience i

Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd said Monday that a presidential veto of the omnibus trade bill

The WEFA Group, an international economic and business consulting firm, expects market forces to dri

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

Korean Auto Exports Fell 18.2 percent in AprilSEOUL, South Korea - Exports by South Korea's

For February 1988 vs. February 1987 (In Metric Tons - Via Ocean)RegionFeb. 88

Behind the dramatic images of turmoil in the streets, the Palestinian uprising is settling into an e

Canadian supermarkets helped convert Wang Gongrong into a whole-hearted believer in the market-orien

Baker Is Satisfied With Level of DollarTreasury Secretary James A. Baker III said Monday he

NORTH AMERICAN COAL CORP. (Cleveland) - K. Donald Grischow was elected comptroller and assistant tre

Pan American World Airways reported that scheduled freight ton-miles increased 20 percent in April c

Cadec Systems Inc. a unit of Cummins Engine Co., has introduced a new series of programmable vehicle

Two reports from the General Accounting Office show 401k plans that defer taxes on employee wages in

Saul B. Ackerman, professor emeritus of insurance at New York University, died Saturday. He was 100.