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EC May Cut Corn Tax To Fulfill US AccordThe European Community is said to be leaning toward

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

The government is setting up a joint venture with China aimed at helping the Chinese with agricultur

The United States should consider allowing "moderate relaxation" of controls on export to China of e

The U.S. market for superconductors is expected to grow from today's estimated $200-million-a-year-l

Unionized workers in U.S. heavy industries in most cases could buy more with their wages last year t

The U.S. dollar inched higher against major currencies in an unusually quiet market Thursday.

Thu., July 2, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

The declining dollar, continuing U.S. business expansion and lower oil prices are boosting the fortu

The Australian freight transport group TNT is hoping to use British Aerospace 146-QT jet freighters

California's authority to set safety standards for railroad workers by requiring minimum clearances

Iranian Prime Minister Hussein Musavi has warned there won't be security in the Persian Gulf as long

The insurance industry is studying the possibility of offering premium incentives to fleets who adop

You meet such people on vacation, even while riding horseback high up in the Rockies or while white-

July 2, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Domestic oil and gas drilling plunged more than 41 percent during the first half of the year compare

The government presented Congress with a preliminary 1988 budget based on oil income of $9.1 billion

Kuwait will resume exports of liquefied petroleum gas to Japan this month with a shipment of 45,000

To bolster the profile of the Alaskan natural gas pipeline project, the Resource Development Council

GENERAL NEWS Superconductor market is pegged to grow with advances in the technology. Page 2

The Maritime Administration for the first time has agreed to permit underwriters other than U.S. or

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

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

National Research Council's Transportation Research Board. 12th annual summer conference on ports, w

Symposium Scheduled July 26-28 in ChicagoPublic policy on rail rationalization and the futur

Sea-Land Corp.'s improved second quarter performance is principally theresult of higher rates and gr

July 2 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High Low

Yes, New York City has the bananas. But not much else. Bananas and other tropical fruits are

House Rules Committee Chairman Claude Pepper, D-Fla., will force the House to vote on long-term care

A few oil-rig roughnecks thrown out of work by the depression in the industry are back on the job, e

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began work this week on a $45 million project to deepen the Mississ

The California wine industry is in one of the most turbulent periods in its history, with jug wines

Residents of the District of Columbia drink wine at more than three times the national rate, while A

A new institution to finance trade in the Caribbean Economic Community is expected to be launched in

A federal appeals court ordered a lower court to reconsider Coca-Cola Co.' sobjections to Procter &

The ongoing semiconductor conflict between the United States and Japan is proving a boon to South Ko

Unlike the U.S. Treasury securities market, where several brokerage companies compete for trades bet

UK Official Reserves Declined in JuneLONDON - Britain's official reserves declined an underl

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

Benzene Output Up, Xylene Off in QuarterProduction of benzene and toluene rose in the first