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Paccar Inc. and Grand Auto Inc. said they reached agreement in principle for Paccar to acquire Grand

Hino Diesel Trucks (U.S.A.) Inc. is adding a new Class 7 truck model to its line of imported medium-

Ford Motor Co. is making an electronic migration. The automobile manufacturer is moving away from th

Street Map Software Inc. has added some new features and a graphics option to its StreetSmart softwa

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1270.0 (Jan. 5) Previous day - 1265.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in L

Two eastern regional trucking companies posted lofty third quarter profitmargins despite a f

The first Canadian-bound containers to be directed away from Puget Sound ports were discharged in Va

Excess capacity of the world's shipbuilding industry is likely to continue wellinto the 1990s, revea

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

One of two crewmen who survived the tanker-ferry collision that claimed more than 1,600 lives said T

U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci met with the ruler of Kuwait Tuesday and reportedly assured hi

Natural calamities at home and the protectionist trend abroad notwithstanding, South Asian countries

Cocoa Organization To Discuss PricingThe International Cocoa Organization said it will hold

The International Coffee Organization has moved to tighten supplies in an effort to stabilize prices

The military government devalued the Chilean currency, the peso, by 4 percent Monday night and order

Caribbean sugar exporters welcome a U.S. plan to import additional quantities of sugar from the regi

The Hong Kong subsidiary of Motorola Inc. plans to build a massive plant to design, assemble and tes

Pre-Press Equipment Exhibition SetDUSSELDORF, West Germany - IMPRINTA 88, the world's larges

Adam Opel AG, the wholly owned West German subsidiary of General Motors Corp., hopes to increase by

The new chief of the Agency for International Development likens its role to that of a venture capit

Patience and a willingness to cooperate are the keys to success in countertrade, according to an Ame

Honda Denies Report Of Plans for New PlantMARYSVILLE, Ohio - A spokesman for Honda of Americ

Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita told his cabinet Tuesday that he hopes to establish close personal t

The government of Indonesia anticipates "a difficult year filled with tough challenges" and is maint

US, S. Korea Avert Trade ShowdownU.S. and South Korean negotiators failed to resolve a threa

Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Hajime Tamura plans a formal proposal on eight-way

In the cold, barren reaches of northern Japan, far from the heated debate and late-night meetings of

U.S. cotton exports fell from 6.8 million bales in 1983-84 to less than 2 million in 1985-86 because

The Chinese government has published the 1987-1988 edition of its directory of Chinese trading compa

Soviet Bank to Borrow On Capital MarketsFRANKFURT, West Germany - A Soviet bank will float a

The Hong Kong Futures Exchange, which faced default after the stock market collapse, aims to present

Major Japanese commercial banking institutions plan to expand their capital holdings over the next f

Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, might well have missed helping father the budget- cutting law known as Gra

Unhappy carriers, customs brokers and freight forwarders say the delay in implementation of the Harm

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

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

Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, takes his coffee black, adorns his office in western frontier style and li

A 4 percent surcharge would be levied against the state's 15,000 physicians,podiatrists and

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