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Japan and China agreed Friday to discuss Japan's industrial cooperation with Beijing in auto parts i

The North American Free Trade Agreement may mean liberalized commerce for the three partner countrie

South Korea's Honam Petrochemical Corp. is looking into reducing ethylene production by shutting dow

NATWEST, WHEELOCK FORM MERCHANT BANKHONG KONG - Hong Kong-based Wheelock and Co. and

REGIONAL BLOCS China - The Next Great Business Frontier. May 17, Whippany, N.J. The 27th Ann

U.K. analysts said they are encouraged by the country's February trade data, which showed a signific

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The Washington State China Relations Council is urging President Clinton to renew China's most-favor

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 227.22 up 0.44 w

1500 (May 13, 1994) Previous day - 1491 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

A Military Sealift Command tanker contract under investigation by a Senate subcommittee continues to

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

CHINESE COURT TO SELL SHIP KEPT IN DETENTIONDALIAN, China - The city's maritime cour

Like many other Southern states, South Carolina has looked in the past 10 to 20 years for ways to re

In terms of South Carolina's position in the world marketplace, its most important import may be mon

When entrepreneurs opened the Columbia Duck Mill, the world's first electric textile mill, in South

South Carolina remains home to a host of sleepy Mayberry-type communities in which Andy,Barney, Opie

Michigan banks couldn't sell insurance under a bill that cleared the state's House of Representative

Norwegian shipping firm Bergesen d.y. said it would have a bookkeeping loss of 22 million crowns ($3

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

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The stagnation that had gripped the Port of Charleston this decade appears to have ended, judging by

Nordstrom Inc., a retail giant, is giving an unexpected boost to legislation designed to spur a U.S.

Asian shipowners meeting in Beijing last week agreed to submit to the European Commission their "ser

Not everyone likes to shop at a superstore. So in a world seemingly dominated by superports,

P&O, CHELSFIELD SELLS APARTMENT PORTFOLIOLONDON - Peninsular & Oriental Steam Naviga

Bouyed by hefty agricultural production and high prices, Brazilian farmers, led by soybean growers,

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (Washington) - Barry E. Carter was appointed depu

Four of the leading ship lines serving South America said they intend to rationalize their schedules

The first time she dredged up the courage to join the other peddlers out on the street, Yelena Polov

When you're sitting for hours in this city's notorious traffic jams, it's hard to imagine squeezing

UKRAINE DEFENSE PLANT TO GET AID TO CONVERTDefense Secretary William Perry announced plans f

The International Chamber of Shipping is urging shipbuilders to construct more robust ships.

The California business community is urging state legislators to further modify the state's unitary

Combine an aging - and often inefficient - sawmill industry in Japan, fewer forestry workers, the st

More than three years of litigation over U.S.-Canadian lumber trade may finally come to an end next

As the government goes, so goes industry - at least that's what the Clinton administration hopes wil

This year's Forest Products Transpo will be held a stone's throw from the rich evergreen forests of

The domestic forest products industry has been wondering whether concessions finally pounded out in