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Banham to Head CBI LONDON - John Banham, an efficiency expert who streamlined local governme

Mexico faces competition in the world minerals market from South American and African countries, whi

Cocoa Producers Seek Consumer CooperationThe Cocoa Producers Alliance, comprising 11 African

The USDA raised its estimates for current-year Cuban and Soviet sugar production. Cuban cane

Hino Diesel Trucks (U.S.A.) Inc. announced it will expand the list of standard features on its 1987

Short rail lines and regional carriers are registering major productivitygains and are provi

The following are the results of Thursday's St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session for barge frei

For the week ended Oct. 11, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equ

The deputy U.S. trade representative, Alan Woods, appealed to West Germany for help in cutting the U

WORLD BANK INDONESIA - $14.5 million for a technical assistance project for the telecommunic

Sheraton to Develop Tourist Hotel in ChinaThe Sheraton Corp. has signed a preliminary agreem

Botha Travels to France PARIS - South African President Pieter Botha will visit France for c

Brazil, goes the age-old joke, is a country with a great future - and it always will be. But

The European Parliament opened its campaign for an overhaul of the crisis- ridden budget policy of t

Official sources confirmed the International Monetary Fund returned to Argentina as the Treasury i

Business in Taiwan hopes to learn from Hong Kong about how to fight protectionism as part of its dri

New markets for exporters and carriers of U.S. agricultural goods could open up within two years, a

South Korea's Hyundai Group, which gave the United States the $4,995 Excel subcompact car, is appeal

India tops China as the most important new business frontier" despite exacting terms of foreign coop

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which once confined its warnings about hazardous

Home Group Inc. reported third quarter operating income improved substantially from a year earlier,

Insurance brokers C.E. Heath is to advise shareholders to reject as ''opportunistic and inadequate"

Chase Enterprises To Acquire RangerChase Enterprises of Hartford, Conn., and Anderson, Clayt

A one-time state grant of $60,000 will help offset skyrocketing liability insurance for more than tw

A former New Jersey gubernatorial candidate for the Libertarian Party was convicted of defrauding in

The U.S. dollar held firm against major currencies Wednesday despite the widely expected news of 2.4

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

A confused, mixed stock market drifted sideways again on Wednesday as hesitant market participants c

Bulgaria applied to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, just two weeks after the agency

The Caribbean Basin Initiative, a U.S. trade program for the region implemented just under three yea

Ivory Coast Embassy ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - The Ivory coast says it will reconsider reopening

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

The Argentine government's budget deficit rose in September, official figures showed amid preparati

Kawasaki, Nissho Iwai Open Plant in YonkersA partnership involving Kawasaki Rolling Stock US

FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS: With the United States and China, it was Ping-Pong diplomacy that brought abo

Kawasaki, Nissho Iwai Open Plant in YonkersA partnership involving Kawasaki Rolling Stock US

President Corazon Aquino said talks will begin next week in New York to reschedule $9.3 billion of t

The National Council on International Trade Documentation will sponsor a day- long forum on recent d

FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS: With the United States and China, it was Ping-Pong diplomacy that brought abo

Marshal Ye Jianying, a veteran of the Long March and a key power-broker during Deng Xiaoping's rise