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Pierre Lardinois, Dutch Statesman, DiesTHE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch statesman Pierre Lardi

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group of Hong Kong is withdrawing from Vancouver after a run of losses.<

A British Airways jetliner bound for Los Angeles flew within 1,000 yards of a Royal Air Force cargo

A federal district judge has extended an injunction that bars railroad shop craft unions from taking

The state's top insurance official is reviewing a rate hike requested by a group of insurance firms

The federal agency that guarantees pension plans for millions of U.S. workers said it will try to bl

As the American Trial Lawyers Association annual convention folded up its tent here, its vice presid

The strengthening of oil prices may be good news for the nation's battered petroleum industry. But i

Three U.S. computer concerns won major export orders last week. Cray Research Inc. of Minnea

The Maritime Administration has refused to reconsider its planned alternative trade route system, bu

Ente Nazionale per Energia Elettrica, the Italian state utility, and Italy's largest single steam co

A fleet of sailing ships is sailing to Rio, repeating one of the greatestvoyages of migratio

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

Tanzania's principal port of Dar es Salaam is in the midst of an ambitious $150-million program desi

Representatives of the different sectors of the U.S. sweetener industry here disagree over whether t

Thailand's Labor Department criticized the U.S. government's decision to consider curbing duty-free

State Insurance Commissioner Bill Gunter announced that the solvency in surer for United American He

Pension Reclassification By NY State UpheldALBANY, N.Y. - The state properly reclassified tw

North Yemeni Prime Minister Abdel-Aziz Abdel-Ghani said his country would start exporting oil befor

In terms of total dollar value, French arms exports are just below wine and above cheese. Fo

The Senate voted Friday 83 to 11 not to adopt a provision in its omnibus trade bill that would requi

Support in Congress is growing for removal of the ban on the export of North Slope crude oil to Jap

Housing construction, hard hit by a sharp rise in mortgage rates, fell in June for the fourth-consec

American President Cos., with its import volume and shipping rates higher, and its four new ships ru

About 3,000 fish died when they swam into a pool of heated water dischargingfrom the Oyster

Harmonized System Seminars. Four-hour seminars conducted by Sandler & Travis, Trade Advisory Service

Futures exchanges in London, Singapore, and Sydney are attracting a growing amount of international

Industries Chimiques du Senegal, the first phosphoric acid and fertilizer complex in sub-Saharan Afr

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement said last week that it would reduce an announced currency

Eastman Kodak Co. plans to expand its 14-inch optical disk facilities in Rochester and its Verbatim

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

The U.S. textile and apparel trade deficit for May rose 29 percent from May 1986 to a record of $1.9

July 17, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Brent Falls Slightly After Week of GainsSlight falls in Brent crude prices Friday rounded of

An archaeologist who wants to search for a Manila galleon that sank in Drake's Bay in 1595 was given

As foreign bankers and brokers devise ways to sell overseas securities to Taiwan's recently unshackl

Representatives of major Japanese life and non-life insurance companies were report ed by industry s

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

Using a chemical Trojan horse, a new kind of antibiotic can attack drug- resisting microbes that cau

A pilot has sued a company he claims illegally fired him because he refused to donate to a political