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The U.S. Customs Service soon will demand more information from airlines and freight forwarders.

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Soviet willingness to rely on chartered ships to carry grain has meant additional business for the P

E. GERMANY TO ALLOW FOREIGN BUSINESSESFRANKFURT, West Germany - The Volkskammer, East German

East German authorities never really considered a market-competitive solution to privatizing the for

Two London-based insurance associations plan a merger that should help improve the administration as

A week after the earthquake in Iran the London insurance market is expecting its share of claims fro

New York Mercantile Exchange June 27, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

June 28, 1990 Copper Total, 18,439. Gold Total, .1,583,033.Silver Total, .250,876,910.

The U.S. Customs Service has temporarily blocked a New Jersey company's shipment to Iraq of state-of

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens and 52 American shareholders of his private investment firm, Boone Co.

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

KOREA MARITIME INSTITUTE. July 2-4. Seoul, South Korea. Symposium on "The Public Sector's Role in Lo

Highly inefficient and costly port operations are another of the targets in the sight of the new Bra

Japan's steel exports fell 22.4 percent in May from a year earlier to 1.34 million metric tons, refl

WASHINGTON - For the week ended June 23, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro

Danish shipowner A.P. Moller is joining two other European oil carriers in refusing to let its own t

The Basque region of northern Spain probably is best known for the violence and terrorism spawned by

June 28, 1990 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

The Senate Labor Committee Wednesday approved a bill to tighten limits on pesticide residues in food

June 28, 1990 JAPANFinancial Futures*Japanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bon

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE OFF SHARPLY IN JUNEConsumer confidence declined significantly in June, a

European-style shipping conferences, with their restrictive membership rules and rather authoritaria

As the Japanese see it, the just-concluded talks with the United States on removing structural trade

Congress will pass a Clean Air bill by Oct. 31, said William Fay, administrator of the Clean Air Wor

H&M International Transportation Inc. plans to route double-stack container freight from its Kearny,

ANSWERING MACHINE PASSES MESSAGES ALONGMatsushita Electric Corp. of America introduced a new

GHANA PLANS TO BOOST PRODUCTION OF COFFEEACCRA, Ghana - The Ghanaian government intends to e

PROPYLENE GLYCOL Dow Chemical Corp. said it will increase prices 2 cents a pound July 1 for

An investigative agency of the U.S. Congress has found that the U.S. Department of Agriculture shoul

ITALY'S TRADE DEFICIT ROSE SHARPLY IN MAYItaly posted a merchandise trade deficit of 2.5 tri

When a full-service deluxe hotel proudly promises 24-hour room service to its guests, a lot of harri

While wooing Maxwell House Coffee Co., the Jacksonville Port Authority got a postgraduate education

Crude oil prices recently slid to 18-month lows, but gasoline prices haven't followed, leading to re

The director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade said he would become more aggress

Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu said Thursday that Japan would not immediately participate in a joint F

The global economy may be witnessing the long-term decline of the English- speaking world, according

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Trinidad and Tobago's government is tailoring its incentive package for potential U.S. investors in

NORWAY MAY CONTEST EXTRA US SALMON DUTYOSLO, Norway - The Norwegian government said it may f