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World leaders meeting here this week have a tough juggling act to perform as they try to ensure the

President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica said his government will be taking its complaints about the Cari

GENERAL NEWS The government's employment figures for May reflect little progress for U.S. ec

Pope John Paul Begins Pilgrimage to PolandWARSAW, Poland - Pope John Paul II today begins hi

Battling his way through airport traffic, the freight forwarder glanced at his watch and at the stac

The High Productivity Integral Train Project seminar June 23 at the American Congress Hotel in Chica

A delegation representing three Japanese shipyard groups is taking advantage of Nor-Shipping week in

Agip Petroli, an Italian refining and marketing company, will acquire a 50 percent interest in Steua

General Motors officials say they plan talks with new union officials elected here after a bitter di

Longshoremen at Tacoma use ropes to guide a Maryland railcar as it is swung off American President L

Europeans have rushed to capitalize on Japan's two-year-old action program" to remove official impor

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. has been ordered by the New York State Public Service Commission to purch

Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper called late last week for a delay of at least seven years in petroleum deve

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC's acquisition of the Stauffer Chemical Co. is aimed at greatly impr

Canada's Pacific Coast ports have set a grain-loading record with two months remaining in the curren

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a National Labor Relations Board order that Baker-W

Lexmar Inc., a Greenwich, Conn., ship agent that recently purchased 32 Spanish vessels for $70 milli

Nicaragua is actively seeking greater economic aid from several Latin American countries in the wake

Congress is showing increasing concern over Western bank lending to the Soviet Union. Rep. J

The airlines' new deep discount fares are saving travelers hundreds ofdollars, but for some

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

The navigator of a Soviet fishing trawler working off the Oregon Coast will not soon forget this sma

Resolving conflicts between natural gas producers and interstate pipelines over take-or-pay contract

Tort reform, banks in insurance, risk retention and other legislative topics will be discussed June

The two senators leading the way on financial guarantee insurance legislation for New York state app

Public alarm over the shipment of 160 million cigarettes with high herbicide levels to Japan could j

South Korea Outlines Excise Tax ReductionsSEOUL, South Korea - The government will cut by an

Supercomputer Talks Held Achieving LittleA round of supercomputer negotiations between Japan

Marad Nod Sought On Foreign TankerTwo subsidized U.S.-flag bulk carrier companies asked the

The port of Baltimore's 50-foot channel project, which has been mired in controversy for the past 20

An increasingly dangerous investment climate is frightening multinational companies and turning off

The pattern of seaborne fertilizer trade is set to change as the movement of finished fertilizers gr

Mine owners reached a wage agreement with white miners late last week, averting what could have been

Miners staged a brief walkout at the Labin coal mine, site of a recent 33-day strike, after failing

The suggestion that Brazil may stop its international debt moratorium by paying half of the interest

The U.S. dollar was broadly lower Friday, although it moved up from its lows of the day on short cov

Major European airlines expect a 40 percent higher profit this year after a traumatic" year in 1986,

Self-insurance groups operating under new federal law would be regulated in New York state generally

A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Pennsylvania's ban against banks being affiliated wit

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