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The Italian car group Fiat announced Wednesday the signing of a joint venture project for the assemb

Japan, China Sign Loan Accord for 1987Japan will provide China with 85 billion yen, or $586

GENERAL NEWS Top superconductor physicists predict a room-temperature superconductor will be

For the past decade, the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil has presented annual Million Dollar

The American Association of Port Authorities has a new president - Erik Stromberg, formerly the asso

Stationing the battleship U.S.S. Missouri and 10 other warships in the city will not pose significa

Iranian fighter jets shot down an Iraqi helicopter early Wednesday after it had attacked a Turkish m

Legislation to end what the government calls "malpractices" by shipping agents is drawing a storm of

Ten to 12 cars of a northbound Santa Fe freight train derailed near the Beacon Oil refinery in south

Wed., June 24, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Lime producers at 96 plants sold or used 1.3 million short tons in April, about the same as the mont

Tort Reform Movement Gains 13 More StatesCivil justice reform gained support of 13 more stat

The health insurance industry seems to be accentuating the negative in the debate over proposals to

Two prominent New York senators working to regulate the financial guarantee insurance business appea

Domestic exports in May shot up after a sluggish April, with re-exports and imports growing at a slo

Tighter U.S. import restraints could seriously harm U.S. automakers who rely on engines produced by

The Reagan administration and a broad business trade coalition lashed out at the Senate omnibus trad

The National Coal Association wrapped up its 70th anniversary convention here this week amid a bit m

A British company has introduced a dewpoint monitor for natural gas, said to be a major advance in t

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

Marad, Yards Launch Cost-Cutting ProjectThe Maritime Administration set in motion a governme

Rockwell International Corp. is considering a move into the heavy truck transmission business, but o

Proposed tax changes in Canada may add to the country's problems with distance and scattered populat

Even as Thomas J. Donohue savored his Supreme Court victory in the Pennsylvania flat tax case, the A

Mass. Town Rejects Railroad ProposalBELCHERTOWN, Mass. - Voters in this small central Massac

Next month almost anyone who thinks London's perennially busy Heathrow and Gatwick Airports must be

Members of a House subcommittee Wednesday heatedly drubbed a Federal Aviation Administration policy

Becton Dickinson & Co., Franklin Lakes, N.J., has agreed to purchase the Gibco U.S. microbiology div

The National Organization for Women is expected to appeal a Manhattan appeals court ruling that lets

Argentina has opened a third round of bids for oil exploration, sweetening the terms for investors a

The Federal Maritime Commission has approved a batch of primarily technical changes in its regulatio

A section of the Rhein River near Karlsruhe, West Germany, remains closed to shipping as abnormally

The newly merged National Coal Association and the Mining and Reclamation Council met in Chicago thi

Now that Congress has kindled a fire under the trucking industry to accept controversial new brake t

Financial seas have been rough for the Companhia de Navegacao Lloyd Brasileiro, or Lloydbras, Brazil

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

Traditional Exports Crude oil, petroleum and rubber products, natural rubber, tin, palm oil,

U.S. Representatives to a meeting next month of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade are putti

A Florida survey indicated that even though more drivers are using child restraint devices, less tha

The first of three full-service banks taken over by the government during afinancial crisis