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The United States and Canada reached an agreement Wednesday to remove export charges of 15 percent o

A membership revolt that ousted the leaders of the largest dockworkers local in Baltimore will not m

Phillips Petroleum Co. Wednesday announced a reduction in its work force by 7 percent to 10 percent,

Amoco Corp., indicating it believes this week's plunge in oil prices won't last, announced a 15 perc

Abu Dhabi appears to be the first member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to not

Nearly 3 million tons of shipping has been sunk or written off in the Persian Gulf since July in the

Sixteen foreign securities companies and six Japanese companies were offered membership on the Tokyo

Peru Denies Report Of Debt MoratoriumLIMA - Peru's economy minister denied a report his coun

New York Life Insurance Co. announced Wednesday that it would lower thedollar limits at whic

McM Corp., a Raleigh-based insurance holding company and parent corporation of Occidental Life Insur

Burlington Northern Railroad, which has one of the more innovative marketing departments in the rail

House and Senate budget negotiators are searching for ways to trim about $370 million in spending fr

Welcome to EDI Exchange. In this column The Journal of Commerce will take a behind-the-scenes look a

Rescuers raced bad weather Wednesday to reach two freighters that smashed into each other in the dar

The imbalance between eastbound and westbound trade on the North Atlantic could disappear within two

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has called for bids to clean up selenium- tainted soil at Kesterson N

Celanese Chemical Co. announced plans to rebuild its Pampa, Texas, facility following an explosion t

Monsanto, OSHA Reach SettlementST. LOUIS - Monsanto Co. announced it has reached a settlemen

December 16, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

Critical Issues in Managing Corporate Aircraft, Dec. 17, Los Angeles Airport, Hilton & Towers.Contac

Longshoremen at Montreal staged a one-day walkout Wednesday in an escalation of a bitter dispute wit

The United States' major trading partners are informally urging the Reagan administration to conside

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

Many barges that dump sewage sludge in the ocean will be equipped sooner than planned with so-called

The McCarran-Ferguson Act antitrust exemption for the insurance industry should be repealed, the cha

Maersk Line is leaving the door open about whether it will join the westbound rate-setting conferenc

Trade sanctions being considered in Washington this week in response to Brazil's computer software m

Chilean fish meal exports for 1987 are expected to decrease to about 1.08 million metric tons. The a

Brazil's reputation as major center for video piracy has kept most international video distribution

Du Pont Increases Capacity in TexasWILMINGTON, Del. - E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has comp

The first cargo of resumed liquefied natural gas shipments to Boston harbor is expected to arrive at

United Technologies Corp. Chairman Robert E. Daniell stressed the benefits of international joint ve

Representatives of the nation's biggest airlines held a rare meeting aimed at avoiding traveler dela

In what may be interpreted as another mixed signal to rapidly growing Asian economies, the United St

Wed., Dec. 16, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Defense lawyers in Florida may soon have an alternative to expensive professional liability insuranc

A key Massachusetts insurance industry official said that anything less than a 10 percent net increa

The U.S. textile industry has recovered somewhat from its 1984-85 recession, an industry leader said

I hope it's not too outrageous to say the United States and the rest of the free world ought to be c

Another 10 percent depreciation of the dollar against both the Japanese yen and the West German mark