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When automobiles were young, fuel gauges and speedometers were options. Car owners had to hire mecha

Keep On Truckin must have been the Grateful Dead preaching to Philadelphia. The city's taken

After years of haunting U.S. truck makers, it looks as if the phantom class may finally be giving up

General Dynamics Turns Profit in QuarterST. LOUIS - General Dynamics earned $95.3 million, o

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A good truck driver is hard to find. In the Midwest, change that to near impossible, according to so

A bill to raise the pay of Seattle and Tacoma port commissioners from $5,800 a year to $18,000 a yea

The number of ships calling at Hong Kong in the third quarter was down from the second quarter, as w

Montreal Shipping Inc., an agency that has been representing shipping companies for almost 70 years,

Documentary Preparation for Export Seminar. Feb. 10-12. World Trade Institute, World Trade Center, N

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

A British company has developed an instrument to check the quality of glass during production.

Exporters that want to do business with developing or communist-style economies can't afford to igno

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South Korean businessmen and Chinese officials held an unusual meeting in Hong Kong last week to dis

U.S. businessmen are beginning to aggressively re-establish export markets and should be highly comp

Through the port of Hamburg flows a hefty share of the goods that helped West Germany rack up a $13.

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

Tokyo Ranks at Top Of Expensive-City ListAn American family moving to Tokyo would need nearl

Banks seeking to get rid of their Mexican debt exposure would be better off selling the debt on the

A large photo of Lenin hangs on one wall of Ivan Agayn's office at the Research Institute of Pharmac

Currency traders are looking to Friday's announcement of the December U.S. trade deficit to provide

U.S. automakers, encouraged by the Reagan administration, are trying to prepare a major trade action

Ford's Autoworkers In Britain Call StrikeUnions representing Ford Motor Co. Ltd.'s 32,500 ho

CREDIT AGRICOLE U.S.A. (New York) - Robert Keener was named first vice president and manager of bran

The makers of Malaysia's Proton Saga cars plan to launch an assault on the United States and other f

World Bank Capital Agreement ExpectedWASHINGTON - An agreement is expected shortly on a capi

Reebok Plant Damaged By Fire in South KoreaCANTON, Mass. - Reebok International Ltd. said fi

The nation's jobless rate held steady at a decade-low 5.8 percent in January as job growth slowed to

Consumer confidence is rebounding sharply from a sinking spell after the Oct. 19 stock market crash,

A small company seeking a niche in the gourmet pasta market is ready to unveil a new weapon combinin

Citibank has completed the purchase of a 45 percent stake in Grupo Copihue - a Chilean concern with

Japan will end its restraints on car shipments to the United States when the current agreement expir

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

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

Sylvester Stallone and Brooke Shields are leading a galaxy of stars hawking everything from hi-fi vi

A government advisory committee on agriculture said the production cost of domestic beef and milk pr

Like free-marketers anywhere, the managers of two factories relying on U.S. technology to make compu

One of China's northeastern industrial centers is looking for foreign know- how and equipment as it