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Dockworkers appear to be going back to work at the key containerport of Tianjin after a strike at th

HOECHST CELANESE REMOVES SURCHARGEHoechst Celanese Corp.'s Chemical Group said it was removi

Formosa Plastics Corp., Parsippany, N.J., will become the second U.S. licensee of BASF Corp.'s gas-p

Lengthy testing in rats and mice to predict whether a chemical poses a cancer hazard in humans usual

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Strikes at two of South Korea's three largest shipyards are threatening to push the troubled industr

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The French government has approved a plan for Groupe des Assurances Nationales, the third-largest st

Zaire, locked in a diplomatic row with its former colonial ruler Belgium, has ordered its state-owne

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

A new mutual fund made up of an index of natural gas industry stocks may be approved by the Securiti

Only a day after international trade talks opened last week in Montreal, Frans Andriessen, the Europ

A formula used by shipowners and oil companies to analyze the cost of moving petroleum products acro

Waterfront employers on the East and Gulf coasts will resume contract negotiations with the Internat

BUSINESS INVENTORIES ROSE 0.2 PERCENT IN OCTOBERU.S. business inventories rose a moderate 0.

Natural gas prices for end users during the 1988-89 winter should average about 6 percent higher tha

CHEVRON INTERNATIONAL LTD. (San Francisco) - Gerald Fuller was named general manager for operations

Managers of electronic data interchange systems are not too worried about their systems being infilt

TWO REAPPOINTED TO TULSA PORT BOARDTULSA, Okla. - Edward Keller and Robert Bost have been re

Federal Express Corp.'s net income rose 19 percent to $52.5 million, or $1.01 a share, from $44 mill

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Europeans prefer them red, Asians prefer them white. Florida grapefruit growers, shipping th

* Importers Say Customs' Fraud Probe Shows Hostility 4A * Vera Trojan - Questions on Coordin

BAHAMAS - $10 million from the World Bank for technical and vocational training, in particular in th

Wed., Dec. 14, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Federal Maritime Commission has concluded it lacks jurisdiction to regulate agreements among oce

Supplies of petroleum products followed normal seasonal patterns, as distillate fuel inventories dec

READING & BATES SELLS GOLDEN OAK MININGTULSA, Okla. - Reading & Bates Corp. said it has ente

A story headlined, French Line Postpones Layoffs, that appeared in The Journal of Commerce Nov. 25 o

AMERICAN PRESIDENT COS. (Oakland, Calif.) - J. Douglass Coates was promoted to president of American

Australia's Ansett Transport Industries is determined to develop its Asian air cargo connection, des

The Seafarers International Union asked the Maritime Administration to hold hearings on Internationa

Word that industrial output posted strong growth again in November and pushed capacity use higher le

ILLINOIS, CHUBB SETTLE DROUGHT COVER DISPUTESPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois has dropped adminis

Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, this week promoted new vice presidents, including five key interna

The Soviet Union's plans to devalue the Soviet ruble for commercial transactions could mean a drop i

Talk between computers is getting cheaper and easier. Competitive pressures are dropping the

The business of processing and sending electronic data interchange messages is highly amorphous and

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

SOUTH KOREA TO FREEZE STEEL EXPORTS IN '89SEOUL, South Korea - The government will freeze ex