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''I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say . . . my high shipping costs I'm looking to defray."<

The United States and Japan have agreed to shore up resources to defend thedollar on world c

Millions of dollars are at stake in discussions on a proposed service contract between shippers of w

Carbide Plans Accruals To Cover LitigationDANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. said that it

Freight forwarders and passengers can look forward to some new corporate faces after USAir and Piedm

The U.S. pulp and paper industry is expected to benefit from an improving trade position and continu

Japan leads the list of potential markets for increased American farm exports over the next three ye

Air Cargo Equipment Buying Back StockAir Cargo Equipment Corp. will repurchase up to 5 perce

Farm exports are riding an upward trend and should reach $32 billion in fiscal 1988, a full 15 perce

Units of W.R. Grace & Co. have developed a process for manufacturing powdered ceramic-like material

Rio Grande Industries Inc. has warned Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. that its continuing attem

The Capitol Hill squabble over the reappointment of Frederic N. Andre to a seat on the Interstate Co

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to revise its rules governing farm workers' exposur

Railroad freight traffic ended the year with a figurative flood of carloads as the resurgent manufac

GM Reverses Denials On Closure of PlantMcCOOK, Ill. - Despite earlier denials that it planne

In a story published Dec. 16 on the marketing of a generic birth control pill, the exclusive U.S. ma

Coast Guard officials are already cutting back sea and air patrols as they apprehensively await word

Longshoremen in the Pacific Northwest scheduled a one-day work stoppage for today to protest proposa

The battered hulks of several abandoned clipper ships lie half-submerged in the shallows along a des

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. announced Wednesday a pioneering deal to equip China's official n

State-owned Philippine National Oil Co. is embarking on a substantial upgrading of its tanker fleet,

Although ship traffic on the Delaware River edged up 1 percent in 1987, large docks in Philadelphia

Bilspedition AB, the biggest trucking and forwarding organization in Scandinavia, has taken over the

Soviets Seek Removal Of High-Tech BarriersSTOCKHOLM, Sweden - Soviet Premier Nikolai I. Ryzh

Defense attorneys hammered away again Wednesday at a key government witness in a waterfront corrupti

Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, R-Md., promised to watch over enforcement of a tougher new law on U.S. ci

Israel is ready to join France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the United States, Chile, Australia and South

U.S. companies complain of barriers to entering Japan's construction market but few have shown real

UK Urges Reforms In Import Liquor TaxBritish Foreign Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe Wednesday ca

Gov. Booth Gardner wants to make Washington a center of international trade and finance. He

Caribbean officials and business leaders are keeping close watch on the U.S.-Canada free trade agree

U.S. businessmen may reap substantial benefits from new economic reforms and other developments in C

The Philippines is exempting its export products from a new tax system introduced Jan. 1 to boost th

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At least 8,000 small- and medium-sized industries in northern Nuevo Leon state will be forced to clo

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

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

In his quest for truth, Joseph M. Belth has developed a penchant for controversy. From a sev

January 13, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

Oil that leaked from a factory into a tributary of the Moscow River has tainted the city's water sup