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Canada's vital pulp and paper industry is facing shutdowns over the the next few days as emergency l

U.S. officials struggled to find a formula for persuading Russia to halt its sale of nuclear technol

If Amtrak is to survive as a national passenger system, Congress must give it funding flexibility, t

Thursday, March 23, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 21, '94 - March 23, '95 (a graph) (

An American businessman expressed optimism Thursday that he and his Chinese partners could work out

Potential investors have backed away from bidding on Colombia's second- largest airport, fearing the

The U.S. dollar slumped to yet another record low of 87.95 yen early Thursday on selling at least pa

The Clinton administration's proposed funding of three trade and investment promotion agencies falls

The airlines have taken their case to Capitol Hill in a bid to repeal a proposed $500 million-a-year

Importers and customs brokers have significantly more responsibility, but precious little guidance,

A recent analyst report strongly advises foreign investors to keep away from Japan Air Terminals Co.

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor Thursday unstintingly embraced trade liberalization and econ

After a years-long battle to rebuild its traffic base, the Long Island Rail Road is recommending tha

India's 1995-96 (April-March) gross domestic product will expand 5.5 percent compared with the 3 per

After months of wrangling over stiff rail-imposed equipment storage penalty charges, an intermodal i

The compensation package McDonnell Douglas Corp. assembled to attract Harry C. Stonecipher, chief ex

An Australian consortium said that an agreement for a $292 million deal to build the Beijing-Great W

Bank of Spain Governor Luis Angel Rojo said Thursday the central bank expects the nation's inflation

Government economic officials here are increasingly confident that Mexico will turn the corner to re

PRIVATIZED LUFTHANSA TURNS PROFIT IN 1ST YEARFRANKFURT, Germany - Lufthansa German A

Central American coffee representatives are scheduled to meet next week in Nicaragua to discuss thei

"This matter unfortunately became a hemispheric contest, the antipathy of consensus."

The copper market will face shortages through 1996, with a deficit of 203,000 tons this year, fallin

Improved results in the chemical business enabled Deutsche Shell, the German subsidiary of Royal Dut

More than 100 nations gave the diplomatic green light Thursday to the appointment of former Italian

A strike in Kuwait's gulf war oil fields entered a sixth day Thursday with no early end in sight.

PANEL OKS BILL TO OPEN US PHONE, TV INDUSTRIESWASHINGTON - The Senate Commerce, Scie

Virginia Power soon will begin two major projects at its North Anna nuclear power station in Louisa

KETCHIKAN PULP SETTLES POLLUTION COMPLAINTSKetchikan Pulp Co. agreed to pay over $3 million

Newly released statistics show that Texas posted record exports in 1994, but a sudden economic crisi

Recent successes in bilateral trade relations between the United States and China have made it very

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

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is considering a bid to acquire Australia's power system, as part of a pu

SPARKS COS. (Memphis, Tenn.) - David Holloway and Craig Cates joined the commodity research firm as

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko called Tuesday for his Parliament to be dissolved within

E.F. Johnson Co., a developer of radio communication systems in Burnsville, Minn., heard strong sign