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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

Shipping links between Australia and China have been strengthened by the visit of a Chinese transpor

Winter has come early this year in the mountains of central Vermont. And, as always, enormous woodpi

Latin American coffee-producing countries agreed to limit January-March coffee exports to 8.7 millio

South Africa is supplying Zimbabwe with 34,000 tons of fuel because of snags in the operation of a p

Observers say the city of Boston is negotiating from a position of weakness as it looks to a $185 mi

December 2, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

The International Cocoa Organization Statistics Committee forecast a world cocoa surplus for 1986-87

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Foreign oil companies working in Indonesia will be given extensions of contracts if they have "good

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

Australia, New Zealand Ratings Cut by S&PStandard & Poor's Corp. lowered its ratings for lon

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

Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The British government's probe of alleged misconduct in the dealings of brewery and distillery giant

The busy Peace Bridge that links Canada and the United States had to beclosed Tuesday when a

The government initiated criminal proceedings against Geoffrey S. Collier, the bank securities chief

GENERAL NEWSThe Reagan team plans to send the first part of its 1988 budget to Congress by J

Consortium Abandons Hydroelectric ProjectFRESNO, Calif. - A consortium of San Joaquin Valley

The Coast Guard is monitoring ships off California's coast in an effort to prevent collisions of me

A third major player is pitching into the lucrative and booming telecommunicati ons market in Hong K

Beijing Adopts Trial Bankruptcy LawChina approved a law sanctioning bankruptcy for money-los

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

Seventeen foreign companies signed 34 contracts with the Indonesian government to explore for and mi