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Boeing Co. moved further into the aerospace and defense market last week with news that it will comp

Steel traders must have nerves of steel these days.The financing of imports and exports has

Why go halfway around the world to buy something when you can buy it around the corner? That quest

IRAQ READY TO EXPORTIF UN OKS OIL SALECAIRO - Iraq said Friday it can start exporting crude

Virginia Power and five other utilities think they've found a way to make sure electrons pay their w

Federal agricultural officials say proposed restrictions are needed to keep Karnal bunt wheat fungus

The state-owned Petroleum Authority of Thailand is embarking on a five-year program to develop natur

European chemical exports are set to rise in 1997 by a buoyant 4 percent in volume terms, and import

JAPAN, US FAR APARTIN INSURANCE DISPUTETOKYO - Japan and the United States failed last Frida

Allstate has been accused of sending ''inaccurate, inappropriate and misleading'' letters to New Yor

They made their money on what the world's reinsurers refused to touch.But now Bermuda's prop

CASJENS: DESPERATIONMAY BRING TRADE SENSELONDON - Freight rates in the Europe/Asia trades ma

ACORDIA INC.Frank C. Witthun was named chief executive officer of the insurance brokerage fi

House and Senate lawmakers preparing for the opening of the 105th Congress next month are planning t

When business and government officials from across Latin America and the Caribbean get together this

Chile's recent entry into the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur in Spanish) is being billed as t

The legislation granting millions of U.S. workers an increase in the minimum wage contained a little

The United States just said ''no'' to Colombian President Ernest Samper last summer.Then the

Recovery and reform in Latin American and Caribbean economies have set off a scramble among U.S. and

A fierce campaign for president of the Teamsters, filled with virulent character attacks on both inc

When are legal goods illegal? When they're so-called parallel imports.This gray area involvi

GERMAN METAL INDUSTRYKEEPS SICK-PAY BENEFITSHANOVER, Germany - In a defeat for Chancellor He

It looks like Singapore will be the first U.S. textile trading partner to report an Elvis sighting e

U.S., Mexican and Canadian environmental officials and advocates, working with the North American Fr

India will likely support high-tech free trade efforts at this week's World Trade Organization meeti

With a Chinese government deadline for trade retaliation set for Dec. 31, Chinese and U.S. negotiato

Germany and France today will try to resolve outstanding differences over the last remaining buildin

Despite its recent endorsement of a grandiose plan to slash tariffs on telecommunications products,

RAILBNSF OPENS NEW ROUTETHROUGH WASHINGTONSEATTLE - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Cor

Europe's rail freight services were attacked Thursday by two leading shipowners for failing to adapt

Overnite Transportation Co. is seeking a 5.9 percent rate increase from its customers, effective Jan

Ship repair may be going through hard times, but Singapore's biggest player in the field isn't deter

SPAIN EXTRADITESLAURO HIJACKER TO ITALYROME - Spain extradited a Palestinian to Italy Wednes

In an ironic twist, clean air standards designed to help the environment may end up penalizing clean

Conrail shareholders may decide whether the company's $8.7 billion merger with CSX Corp. goes forwar

On Halloween, German customs officials got suspicious when a shipping manifest claimed that two 1949

The growth of international intermodal services is being seriously impeded by different liability re

Last-minute catalog shoppers know they can turn to United Parcel Service or Federal Express Corp. to

A top liner shipping executive called for the creation of a new global body to establish a uniform s

The planned merger of P&O Containers and Nedlloyd Lines is unlikely to precipitate much further cons