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Dow Removes AllowanceOn ResinsMIDLAND, Mich. - The Dow Chemical Co. announced the re

Attendees at a conference on New England's electric power needs walked away praising the amount of i

Reilly Reports NiacinamidePrice HikeReilly Tar & Chemical announced an increase in i

The U.S. Department of Energy signed a model agreement with the state of Illinois pledging cooperati

Va. College Wins Grant For Clean Coal ResearchERNDON, Va. - Virginia Polytechnic Institute a

Ten concerns filed applications to become licensed forwarders in the foreign trades. At the

A regional railroad that operates in central Indiana is betting that there is a market for a coal di

Bureaucratic thickets can have their benefits, Thelma Issman will tell you. For without the

After 13 months of intermittent discussions with shipowners and marine trade unions, the Greek gover

The U.S.S.R. reported it will use intensive technology for its grain crops on 36 million hectares in

HIGH AND DRY: The port of Long Beach so far has fared well during the saga of United States Lines. U

After the passage of the Grain Quality Improvement Act of 1986, many quality issues remained, and th

Bunge to Sell 7 Plants To Central SoyaBunge Corp. signed a letter of intent to sell seven of

French maize producers see hope in resolving the EC-U.S. feed grain dispute over Spanish accession t

Indonesia's earnings from coffee exports between October 1985 and September 1986 reached US$899.7 mi

Falling prices have triggered an emergency meeting of the International Coffee Organization executiv

The key to reversing or at least stemming the "worst crisis world agriculture is facing since the Gr

P&O and European Ferries, two of Britain's largest shipping groups, are due to make an announcement

The U.S. sugar program has impoverished developing countries and impaired their ability to repay deb

When Holland America Line weighed anchor and moved its North American cruise ship headquarters from

GENERAL NEWSSales of new single-family homes in the United States fell 9 percent in October.

After two years of debate, the Italian Parliament passed a law granting sizable state subsidies to b

Overcapacity and rate competition in the Puget Sound-to-Alaska waterborne trade will intensify next

Japanese trade officials have assured their U.S. counterparts that Japan's semiconductor makers have

After a pause of 10 years, CP Hotels is again looking for growth overseas. This time there is a pla

The port of Oakland approved an environmental impact report as the first step toward building a new

Join forces or flounder is the message being sent out loud and clear to Japanese and U.S. semiconduc

Join forces or flounder is the message being sent out loud and clear to Japanese and U.S. semiconduc

Japanese trade officials have assured their U.S. counterparts that Japan's semiconductor makers have

A new pitch for foreign confidence in China's changing economic system came Wednesday as one of its

Another Rhine Spill WALDSHUT, West Germany - About 2.7 tons of a packaging chemical leaked f

Georgia Panel Urging Sweeping Tort ReformsA special governor's advisory panel has recommende

Although there is increasing talk of rewriting the 1985 Farm Act in the 100th Congress, it will be d

U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary Richard Lyng said he remains emphatically opposed to starti

The Taiwan seaman, once found in great numbers in the crews of merchant ships of many international

West German shipowners, who control the world's largest fleet of tramp containerships, are facing mo

CME Gets OK to Trade Australian DollarsCommodity Futures Trading Commission approved the Chi

Greek shipowners and some of the men who supply them with money and cargo sat down together recently

A commission has been established to control adherence to the France-Soviet Shipping Agreement of 19

The nation's farm export slump may be winding down and can be expected to improve over the remainder