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A highly automated titanium dioxide plant has joined Singapore's burgeoning chemical sector, with it

Brazil's fourth petrochemical park gained three-dimensional definition earlier this month when Presi

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Spot market prices for raw industrial materials continued to edge upward last week, pushing The Jour

World trade negotiators will resume this week their quest for an agreement on trade in services.

SPECIAL SURVEILLANCE OF CHILEAN FRUIT ENDSThe Food and Drug Administration said it is phasin

The new budget outline for fiscal 1990 leaves enough money to fund most discretionary domestic progr

A $10.5 billion U.S. trade deficit in February appeared to bolster forecasts of only a slightly bett

Nearly 1,000 unionized dockworkers and supporters from as far away as Texas marched peacefully Frida

Israel's consumer price index rose 0.5 percent in March, compared with 1.7 percent in February and 1

CONRAIL ADDS TO TOTAL OF STEELNET FACILITIESConrail has opened SteelNET facilities in Clevel

For the week ended April 8 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

While a breakthrough appears closer in easing Latin America's $400 billion debt burden, an alarming

Bay Area port officials are calling for a more coherent government permitting process for dredging a

Lloyd's of London has opened a representative office in Milan, its second in Italy, in a further eff

US EXPECTED TO EASE TECHNOLOGY SALES RULESDelegates to the international trade watchdog Coco

JAPAN URGES COMPANIES TO BUY FOREIGN CHIPSFears that the United States will include Japan's

GIVE THOSE BUDGET DEALERS THEIR DUE. Last week's agreement was, by the standards of Washington head-

Favorable news on wholesale inflation, industrial capacity pressures and the federal budget deficit

Air India must substantially increase freighter capacity if its to serve a burgeoning domestic expor

Zimbabwe appears to be taking a tough line in its negotiations with Mobil Corp. over oil exploration

United Parcel Service Inc.'s trucking operations posted a nearly 30 percent increase in 1988 operati

John Terpstra never hesitated last December when Port of Tacoma commissioners seeking a new port chi

Tall oil rosin and 2 percent fatty acid exports rose in February compared with January this year, ac

Bay Area ports say that dredging regulatory agencies act suddenly and unpredictably, making it nearl

The Bluegrass State received a boost to its efforts to expand its exports, thanks to the work of thr

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A North Carolina judge ruled last week that the state's insurance commissioner has no right to limit

European insurance experts are far from certain about the eventual structure of the insurance market

The International Trade Commission's biggest dumping case in years will highlight the agency's activ

Dale D. Myers, the acting administrator of NASA and one of the men brought back to the agency follow

A Soviet research organization is trying to sell the designs of an innovative piston engine to Weste

Apr. 14, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures Market*PrevClose High Lo

A story headlined, "Demand Forces NYK to Add Call at Seattle," on Page 1B of the April 13 edition of

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

Electric Boat's World War II insurance company must pay more than $85,000 to the widow of a man who

EC FARM MINISTERS TO MEET ON SUBSIDIESBRUSSELS, Belgium - EC countries that oppose European

Japan rejected suggestions by a U.S. senator that it buy existing F-16 aircraft "off the shelf" to r

Two U.S. senators introduced a bill in Congress late last week that would establish annual summit me

With a conspicuous appeal to establish quota-free textile export bases to the United States, eight e