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An internal European Union dispute on the implemention of a restrictive banana import regime is thre

The Indian government is considering exporting wheat and rice for the first time, the head of its bi

Copper exports to the United States from the Commonwealth of Independent States are widely expected

The U.S. market for water-soluble polymers, spurred by demand for environmentally friendlier process

In unusually forceful language, AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland Wednesday denounced U.S. corporation

Tight soybean supplies caused by shipping delays in Brazil have forced crushers in Europe to cut bac

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

1253 (Apr. 13, 1994) Previous day - 1246 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 222.63 up 0.50 which compares w

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Canadian officials appeared hopeful Wednesday that a bitter U.S.-Canada farm trade dispute could be

The Port Everglades Authority Commission has quietly and unanimously removed the port's largest non-

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Cleaning up this year's major oil spill off San Juan is expected to cost the government $65 million

Allowing the private sector to operate the West Port complex at Malaysia's Port of Kelang should spe

NY-NJ PORT IN TALKS TO REOPEN TERMINALThe Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is in the

The operator of the Port of Richmond, Va., and the port's largest shipping line lost more than $335,

U.S. port, labor, and cruise interests Wednesday lined up in support of legislation designed to spur

For years, Coast Guard and industry executives have been meeting in hotel conference rooms to practi

Unifying the once-rival ports of Philadelphia and Camden will create a strong competitor for cargo a

The top classification societies are continuously improving the quality of their ship surveys but ca

West Coast longshoremen this week will develop a plan for going global in order to beat multinationa

A House labor panel Wednesday easily approved legislation extending U.S. labor laws to foreign ships

The Coast Guard was about to ease the restrictions Wednesday it had imposed on barging in the St. Lo

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NAVIERAS DE PUERTO RICO DEFENDS SILENCE ON SALESAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - After months

Central banks in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have agreed to allow free trade in their respective curr

South Koreans, alarmed by worker occupations of Asian-owned assembly plants in northern Honduras, ha

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

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The International Monetary Fund may approve as early as next week a $1.5 billion loan to Russia, off

U.S. business executives in Moscow protested an anticipated, and much feared, 23 percent capital inv

The U.S. dollar was mostly lower Wednesday, after news of weaker-than- expected U.S. retail sales da

Dutch retail sales rose a provisional 1.8 percent in February compared with February 1993, according

Spain's unemployment rate fell in March to 17.92 percent of the work forcefrom 18.01 percent

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The Teamsters' strike against less-than-truckload carriers enters its ninth day today with the first

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U.S. coal exporters, heading to Brazil this week for talks over metallurgical coal sales, will likel