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HIGHWAY SPEED LIMIT SCHEDULED FOR REPEALWASHINGTON - Congress was expected to repeal

The Senate Superfund reform bill continues to languish in subcommittee while the Senate majority lea

The Mexican and U.S. postal services have formed an alliance to help smooth the flow of mail across

The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. often saves money by encouraging loss- prevention in the handling

U.S. chemical companies are intensifying the shakeout of their tank-truck service providers and dema

Two federal agencies with the authority to investigate chemical accidents are cooperating to streaml

Friday Nov. 17, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

EX-US STEEL OFFICIAL PLEADS GUILTY TO PAYOFFBIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A former executive of

Conflicts over environmental regulations continue to strain relationships among ports, carriers, gov

Bulk traffic through the St. Lawrence Seaway has boomed this year - driven by last year's record har

American and European farmers are expected to seize on sky-high grain prices to plant more crops for

INDIA SUGAR CANE TO HELP REDUCE GASOLINE USENEW DELHI - India, the world's largest s

Amid all the bickering over farm liberalization and multilateral trade benefits, the 18 members of t

Royal Dutch/Shell Group said it is leasing land for oil storage in North Korea and that the deal cou

From a business perspective, the fine intentions of APEC leaders in Osaka depend upon whether the or

Cuba, which has begun informal talks with creditors toward resolving its external debt problem, has

Before the leaders had even signed off on their common agenda, members of the diverse Asia-Pacific E

In a bid to improve its high-tech qualifications, Pakistan will invite international tenders to set

When Nigeria's foreign minister, Tom Ikimi, visited The Journal of Commerce in July as part of an ef

Ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait in the summer of 1990, Iraq's embargoed crude oil exports have remain

A South Asian trade pact got a buoyant send-off on Thursday, with senior officials from the region a

For years, shippers who move goods across the North Atlantic have pestered the trade's top shipping

Shell has taken out full-page advertisements in at least 10 daily broadsheet and tabloid newspapers,

Italian industrial sales surged at an annual rate of 17.6 percent in August and new orders advanced

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Federal Express Corp. and the Air Line Pilots Association are set to return to the negotiatingtable

Defying predictions to the con trary, non-OPEC nations are pro ducing so much crude oil that they ha

Liberia, which administers one of the largest ship registers in the world, failed last week to obtai

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

An all-out war has broken out among ports in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, leaving carriers at t

Friday, Nov. 17, 1995 (Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

1748 (Nov. 17, 1995) Previous day - 1730 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Germany and France last week reaffirmed their commitment to a European single currency, with France

The 15-nation European Union and the United States, which between them provide more than 90 percent

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Hong Kong's interim legislature, to be installed by China when it recovers the British colony in 199

The European Commission on Thursday said its investigators have raided more than 20 petrochemical co

Federal agents raided a second cotton merchant in Memphis in a widening investigation of the cotton

The world's major oil companies are seeking additional members for the organization they founded 25

Charlie Lehman, a former vice president for governmental affairs for American Commercial Barge Lines