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Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. says it refused to extend certain service contracts to California S

EXCHANGES TO MERGE GOLD, PLATINUM FUTURESNEW YORK - The Commodity Exchange Inc. and the New

PAINEWEBBER INC. (New York) - Hercules A. Segalas was named a managing director in corporate finance

U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION (Washington, D.C.) - David R. Konkel, 39, was named chief of the

KUWAIT MAY PURCHASE US F-18 WARPLANESThe Reagan administration has decided to sell F-18 warp

Mexico continues to make dramatic progress in bringing down inflation but at the cost of prolonging

John Hancock Property & Casualty Co. started sending cancellation notices to about 6,000 auto and ho

Voters are as angry about car insurance rates now as they were about property taxes 10 years ago whe

The Senate Finance Committee has delayed further action on the legislation needed to implement the U

The next six months will be crucial for attempts to end the roller coaster of protectionism and crea

The shipping conference covering imports from Northern Europe to the U.S. East Coast says it will of

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is driving itself into irrelevance, former Nigeria

STEADILY BUILDING LAWYER BILLINGS are giving the blues to the trade groups fighting the Massachusett

Computer chiefs at some of the nation's biggest companies have nice things to say about IBM, or noth

Perhaps as a reflection of our ever-accelerating world, computer users never seem to tire in their q

Secretary of Transportation James Burnley proposed a massive drug testing program that would cover 3

A new semiannual index has been designed to illustrate to average working people the country's abili

Honda's U.S.-made cars are a hit with Japanese customers, the vice president of Honda International

FLA. GOVERNOR SIGNS FINANCIAL GUARANTY BILLTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Bob Martinez sig

When Australia-New Zealand Direct Line decided to enter the shipping lanes between North America, Au

TOP STORIES: Latin America and Canada rank as Florida's top export markets despite the attra

Automotive plastics usage in cars and light trucks produced in the United States and Canada will gro

McDonald's Corp. executives said the fast food giant would experiment with the recycling of rigid fo

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The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought only 900 tons of steam coal under two spot contracts a

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement is offering an online tariff information service for custo

GUILFORD STRIKE PRODUCES LONG DELAYSA bitter rail strike at Guilford Transportation Industri

One of the basic skills required in our high-tech, automated society is expertise in mathematics.

A four-week layoff for 1,200 Chrysler Corp. production workers in Kenosha will start Aug. 1 because

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Malaysia's trade surplus for February amounted to 770 million ringgits ($298 million), down from 1,0

Nearly 30,000 bottles of champagne will be drunk, and more than six tons of strawberries eaten, whil

The Huabei oil field of China will speed up construction of the Alxa oil field in Erenhot, Inner Mon

Federal Aviation Administration staffers are facing a two-week deadline for devising a plan for impl

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices is the ratio of 18

In a move to spur and simplify trade, the government of Malaysia has designated Port Kelang the nati

Inventing an effective design for universal product code systems has been one of the major obstacles

FOREIGN ORDERS UP 7.5 PERCENT AT SOUTH KOREAN YARDSSEOUL, South Korea - South Korean shipyar