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US Weighs Protection For Kuwaiti TankersThe White House said Tuesday there is general agreem

Concern is growing about Argentina's balance of trade prospects, with latest figures showing the sur

President of Portugal Hits US Textile CurbsPortuguese President Mario Soares says recent leg

The Senate Banking Committee approved legislation aimed at reducing the bulging U.S. trade deficit b

How small a road can a big truck travel? That is among the questions facing the Department o

The Federal Reserve Board said Tuesday it has given conditional approval to four large banks to unde

In late April, trade representatives from Hong Kong sat down to lunch at a Korean restaurant in New

The United States may be headed for the same kind of debt crisis that plagues nations in Latin Ameri

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

Two more people have been charged in the burgeoning scandal surrounding South Korea's Pan Ocean Ship

Intermodalism is "the most dynamic development in transportation today," said Leslie Kanuk, chairman

Pragma Bio-Tech Inc. announced it acquired a Food and Drug Administration license to manufacture and

Teamster-represented employees of Pacific Southwest Airlines narrowly approved contract changes in a

The best of times on inflation and the worst of times on budget and trade deficits are steadily beco

Freightliner is manufacturing heavy-duty trucks at an unprecedented rate and should produce a minimu

The May 18 edition of The Journal of Commerce incorrectly stated a number in the Charter Index on pa

Australia announced Monday it will build six submarines designed by Kockums of Sweden and fitted wit

The family of Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair has reached a substantial settlement with Morton Th

A Japanese company says that despite the high yen and reduced exports, it has found a way to make mo

The Federation of German Industries urged the Bonn government Monday to remain firm in its oppositio

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

Sharp increases in cotton and rice exports, rare bright spots in the otherwise glum U.S. trade pictu

The producers of the hit Broadway musical "Les Miserables were tres miserables recently when two per

The missile attack on a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf that took the lives of 28 Navy officers and

Hercules Inc. has announced increases in the market prices of its full line of nitrocellulose produc

John P. Eicher will serve as interim director of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Moto

Likely congressional approval of a catastrophic illness Medicare benefit this year has focused renew

Technological and information revolutions are reshaping coun tries in the Pacific Basin in a way com

Ocean researchers say they have found a gold mine of minerals - the trick is going to be how to get

South Korea shows no signs of easing its push into the United States despite mounting U.S. pressure

Some Asian suppliers for U.S. markets may be unfairly punished by Washington lawmakers eager to "wav

Crude oil futures flirted with the $20 mark Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The

The upstart shipping registries that have proliferated recently "are here to stay" and put pressure

Fears of further inflation and nervousness over the attack on the Navy ship in the Persian Gulf comb

Allied Fibers, a division of Allied-Signal Inc., and Dartco Manufacturing Inc., Augusta, Ga., are ta

European shippers are claiming that when members of the International Air Transport Association init

The forlorn garbage barge, just a short tow from home after an eight-week,6,000-mile voyage

Gov. Mario Cuomo nominated Democratic Assemblywoman Barbara Patton of Long Island on Monday to repla

The man steps out of the truck and makes a beeline for a trash bin at a steakhouse. There, tucked be

Brazil has protested to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade the U.S. decision earlier this ye