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Ten companies that have been successful in promoting the sale of New York state products abroad will

Export Insurance Pact To Assist Tool MakersFive machine tool firms are the first to qualify

A crippled U.S. warship headed for port Monday after an Iraqi missile attack killed at least 28 men

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

Congress must require that 20 percent of all U.S. oceanborne commerce move on U.S.-flag ships, labor

Key sections of multi-employer pension plan law remain unsettled following the Supreme Court's inabi

A cotton buyer from China was talking to a California grower's representative who casually mentioned

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

Reagan Reaffirms Protectionism StandPresident Reagan reaffirmed Monday he would veto any pro

The newly elected president of the Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey said all segments of t

Plans for a $10 million corporate conference center and 120-room hotel in this Putnam County town we

Trucks loaded down with tree trunks still rumble down Highway 101 each morning in a routine as perpe

Canada has much to gain from a proposed free trade agreement with the United States, a Ports Canada

Record inflation disclosed by the Brazilian government portends a threatening wave of hyper-inflatio

Commerce to Probe Pipe Fitting ImportsThe International Trade Commission cleared the way for

Heads of state and government from the seven most powerful economies in the Western world will gathe

The York Country Sheriff's Department has seized in Toronto harbor a Bahamian-registered cargo ship

Worlds of Wonder, the toy manufacturer that scored a hit with its Teddy Ruxpin computerized teddy be

Dry cargo handling at Maine's four ports increased 19.4 percent in 1986, giving state officials evid

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

Duty Free Shoppers Ltd., the U.S.-owned company that specializes in airport and similar outlets, has

BAe Acquires Stake Of Aerospace GroupBritish Aerospace PLC (BAe) announced Monday that it ha

Procedures for the acquisition of ships by Indian companies are being simplified and duties cut as p

* About 3 billion pounds of inedible grease was traded in 1986. * The changing price of grea

The four European nations attending the Venice economic summit will press the United States to reduc

Canada is most concerned about some of the proposed maritime legislation in the United States, said

Life and health insurance benefit payments to LTV Corp.'s 66,000 retirees that were scheduled to exp

Argentina has negotiated a nuclear cooperation accord with Iran, and usually reliable sources say it

Automobile insurance is gaining growing attention here. Three proposals on automobile insura

Fifteen recreational vehicle manufactures are under investigation for safety defects involving load

Michigan business is increasingly trying to take advantage of a new self- insurance law even though

AIDS Study Suggests Vaccine BreakthroughA study showing different strains of the AIDS virus

The number of working oil and gas rigs in the United States this week totaled 744, a decrease of 23

Technological and information revolutions are reshaping countries in the Pa cific Basin in a way com

Chinese rural residents earned 11.2 percent more in cash income during the first quarter of this yea

Japanese automakers have been using "back door sleight-of-hand" to bypass their government-imposed v

Unilever reported Monday that first quarter net earnings, at constant exchange rates, rose 48 percen

The Soviet Union is offering to launch communications satellites in space for the United States and

China is on the threshold of awarding a 60 million ($100.8 million) contract to a group of British

Mon., May, 18 ,1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.