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

A Nevada Senator has succeeded in adding a provision to a bill that would give the state preferred s

The improved picture for U.S. exports should allow ocean carriers to make scheduled freight rate inc

Congressional tax negotiators agreed to retain the Customs Service user fee rate and suspend an exam

Oil prices dropped again Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, with crude closing at $15.65 a

State Farm Cuts Rates On 160 Models for '88BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The owners of 160 models of 1

The chairman of the House Banking Committee proposed that in restructuring the nation's financial sy

AVIATION Decreases in aviation insurance rates are expected to slow in 1988, insurers say.

For the second consecutive year, The Journal of Commerce has won USX Corp.'s first prize for the mos

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The federal bill to deregulate Canada's trucking industry in January is painfully flawed, say shippe

The U.S. Navy is unwittingly driving what's left of the U.S. shipbuilding industry to the wall, the

Taiwan plans to use technology gained from a controversial submarine deal with the Netherlands to bu

Taiwan claims to have invented the free trade zone industrial park in 1966 by creating a dockside fa

The state's highest court ruled Thursday that employers are not responsible for employees' drunken d

Danish shipowner A.P. Moller has ordered two gas-chemical tankers from the West German shipyard Thys

Volcker Warns Against Continued Dollar FallOSAKA, Japan - Former U.S. Federal Reserve Board

Shoddy workmanship, high cost and sluggish innovation is crippling U.S. manufacturing and tarnishing

Lloyd's of London won its fight at least temporarily to prevent taxation of income in the United Sta

North Sea oil prices staged a modest rally by the close of trading Friday, after sinking to 12-month

At the same time as oil prices slumped to their lowest levels for a year last week, two formidable o

Faced with growing traffic congestion at Seattle-Tacoma Airport, the port of Seattle ordered about $

A four-day tunnel fire that severed California's main north-south rail link spread out of control be

The Japanese economy has entered a full-fledged expansion despite the spectacular rise of the of the

Riley D. Wilson, president and general manager of Vu/Text Information Services, has been named execu

PaineWebber and Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Japan have successfully completed their previous

The European Community at the weekend published a list of 30 U.S. trade practices that it said repre

Five Louisiana tug crewman were given a teary-eyed welcome home, ending a six-day ordeal at sea with

December 18, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

ARMED AROUND THE NECK, so to speak, with colorful credential tags for the summit between President R

HARD WORDS FOR TOUGH TIMES describes the content of comments by two speakers addressing the aviation

House Passes Bill For Airport SpendingThe House of Representatives Friday adopted the same A

The Inter-American Development Bank faces more uncertainties with the announcement by its long-time

NEW YORK - Joel W. Barkan was named director of the New York District Office of the U.S. Department

The Greek company Heracles Cement is looking for offers on about a half- million tons of coal it nee

After a period of steady improvement fueled by government statements, relations between Greece's Soc

A full-feature three dimensional modeling software package from Britain for use on minicomputers is

ITC Says Japanese Dumping Picture TubesThe U.S. International Trade Commission announced a f

Researchers for SmithKline & French Laboratories say they have developed a substance that will bind

Implementing electronic data interchange is not just a simple matter of picking up a telephone," Sam