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Trade leads are supplied by:U.S. Department of AgricultureForeign Agricultural Service

Monday Mar. 18, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

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

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

Domestic coal production fell 2 percent to 21.1 million tons during the week ended March 9 from 21.6

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For many in transportation, a shipper-shipper alliance is the Final Frontier, a place to boldly go w

A strange thing is happening on the way to Asia for shipping lines that carry refrigerated cargoes s

Proceed with caution.For trucking companies hauling goods into Mexico, those are words to li

In the growing debate over whether to punish China for failing to live up to its agreement to protec

Getting the plethora of smaller Hong Kong firms into the realm of electronic trading was always goin

When Chinese leaders see warships under the command of Defense Secretary William Perry, they are lik

Heavy losses and a management shuffle at Saga, France's largest stevedoring company, are making port

With Bob Dole headed for a clean sweep in Tuesday's Midwestern primaries, there are growing signs th

Hong Kong's provisional unemployment for December-February fell to 3.1 percent from a seasonally adj

The U.S. dollar rose Monday, breaking technical re sistance at 106 yen, but it was unable to hold ab

The fear of monopolies in the transportation business has always sent shivers down the spines of var

France's two largest oil companies have come under congressional fire for their reported roles in pu

A flap with Russia over chicken trade is quickly shaping up to be a test of the special relationship

The Commerce Department, mindful of recent congressional calls for its dismantling, is proposing for

Seven South Asian countries are adding 750 items to the list of goods covered by their preferential

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150 per ton lots

''Now the only number that is relevant to him is the number of years he may serve in federal prison.

Robust imports triggered another huge drop in Japan's trade surplus in February and economists predi

Fed up with current calculations of railroad profitability, one rail union hired its own expert who

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 248.27 up 0.37 whi

Liberalization of Taiwan's financial markets is being spurred by the continuing tension with China a

The United States urged Monday that bribery and corruption in international trade - and the linkage

Mar. 18, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

PercentYear Closing Change High/ Price From P/E 52-Week 52-WeekLow 3/15/96 3/12/96

FRITZ COS. (San Francisco) - Jonathan Himoff, formerly marketing director for the Harper Group, was

After incurring almost $79,000 in repairs and doctor bills for its crew, the bulk vessel Giurgiu ste

NEW YORK TERMINALSFORM ASSOCIATIONNEW YORK - Ten area inland terminals and warehouse

Brazil wants U.S. investors to know about its ambitious plan to sink $75 billion over the next eight

For the week ended March 9, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Monday, March 18, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD (Chicago) - Donald H. Skelton, who joined IC in October 1994 as vice presi

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 24 '95, - Mar. 18, '96 (a graph)(2)

Hope is high that residents of this weary town of 1,700 might be able to return home today after an

BA, QANTAS TO MERGEOPERATIONS IN TWO CITIESSYDNEY - Qantas Airways Ltd. Monday annou