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

"I can confirm Pakistan possesses the atomic bomb."

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

SBA, EX-IM BANK SET TO GIVE LOAN SEMINARSThe Small Business Administration and the Export-Im

Despite a slight 1 percent drop in tonnage for the first six months of 1994, the Port of Houston Aut

Large and small West Coast ports, particularly ports in the Pacific Northwest, are coping with the s

An elderly man died and more than 400 other passengers were stricken Thursday when a mysterious inte

China's most ambitious railroad project, a high-speed link between Beijing and Hong Kong, is likely

For the week ended Aug. 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

CSX Transportation Inc. began recalling 350 laid-off employees Sunday at its Raceland, Ky., car-repa

An intrastate squabble over highway prominence and funding has emerged as the latest wrinkle to show

Ever since oil prices cratered a decade ago, economic diversification has been the buzzword for reju

The story headlined "Antitrust Repeal Amendment Added to Health Care Bill," which appeared Aug. 3 on

For many reinsurance companies, it is grow or die. The competitive realities of the 1990s de

Attempts by California state legislators to rewrite homeowners' and earthquake insurance laws died f

MET LIFE, TRAVELERS SIGN MERGER PACTNEW YORK - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and T

Shoreline Mutual Insurance - one of the possible alternative sources of backing for the certificates

Nearly half a century after launching an unprecedented assault on runaway population growth, India b

Canadian industries operated at a seasonally adjusted 81.7 percent of capacity between April and Jun

Edward Budd, a 39-year fixture of the staid Travelers insurance empire, retired as chairman late las

As of Sept. 2, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

From the bustling central railway station in Sweden's capital city to the isolated mining and loggin

The Chinese government has vowed to clean up the Huai River, one of China's dirtiest rivers, and wil

MIDWESTERN WHEAT SEES UNUSUAL HIGH DEMANDST. PAUL, Minn. - Shrinking world wheat sup

Kennecott Corp., the nation's fourth-largest copper producer, is pushing up refined copper prices an

Farmers in nine additional Nebraska counties have been declared eligible for emergency U.S. Departme

The International Chemical Workers Union has chosen sides in a labor stalemate between Bridgestone/F

Ira Shapiro has used a combination of honesty, political acumen and disarming humor to build a reput

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 232.60 up 0.72 w

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

Sep. 2, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

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Southern China's commercial capital of Guangzhou is a hub of trade and investment, but it has a numb

The article Sept. 1 on Page 8B with the headline "Bilspedition Sells Over 84 percent of ACL As It Ex

Georgia started rationing electricity Friday because of severe energy shortages. Georgian le

The trustees of a maritime union's benefits plan had the legal right to terminate employer contribut

How to create and upgrade jobs around the world is drawing intensified scrutiny by national governme

Sep. 1, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

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

Amid the lingering aftereffects of the April Teamsters' strike, less-than- truckload carriers are pa