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Japanese truckers have sputtered and stalled for several years now as basic industries like shipbuil

October retail sales of Jaguar luxury cars in the United States fell from its year-ago level, said G

General Motors Corp. announced it will lay off about 500 workers next month at its Flint assembly pl

Here Comes '88 WASHINGTON - The 1986 elections have scrambled the equation for the 1988 pres

Active International Shippers' Association Inc. and Freight-Savers Shipping Co. settled their servic

Enron Corp. of Houston completed the sale of its Enron Chemical Co. subsidiary to National Distiller

U.S. soybean exports are continuing to surge past year-ago levels as the 1986-87 marketing year ente

The Uruguay round of international trade talks could provide an opportunity at least to freeze curre

Leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council have ended their annual summit with a vow to prot

Supplies of distillate fuel oil were unchanged and gasoline supplies declined, the American Petroleu

A supervisor was fired and three employees disciplined for carelessly handling radioactive fuel in a

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

US Official in Europe WASHINGTON - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead leaves toda

Japan's continuing economic slump due to the strong yen has had an adverse effect on manufacturing a

US-China Jeep Plant Will Export This YearPeking Jeep Corp., a joint venture between a Chines

The stock market, shrugging off news that the Democrats gained control of the Senate, edged ahead We

Donald Carson, general organizer of the International Longshoremen's Association, and seven other me

China's Guangzhou province is about to embark on a major advertising binge in the United States to i

Seamen's Institute Sets Boat-Handling CourseThe Seamen's Church Institute for the first time

The operators of the fledgling port of Fernandina Beach will be receiving a dose of "European know-h

Lilco Pays NiMo Cash On Interest ObligationsSYRACUSE, N.Y. - Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. said

The Indian State Trading Corp. has reportedly decided to import some 300,000 metric tons of sugar du

A proposed settlement that could end the strike by the sugar division of Local 1814, International L

I.C.H. Seeks Funds For Insurance MergersThe I.C.H. Corp., a Louisville, Ky., holding company

Tiger Weighs Future Of Flying Tiger UnitTiger International has confirmed it will hold a spe

A U.S.-owned bauxite refinery in southern Jamaica, which was closed last year, is to reopen by year

Duesseldorf to Host Medical Show DUESSELDORF, West Germany - Medica '86, an important medica

US Official AwardedGATT PostGENEVA, Switzerland - Charles Carlisle, chief textile ne

New Zealand will throw open its doors to foreign banks next year, but Bank of New Zealand isn't afra

Voters in Marin and Sonoma counties were asked to make their counties the first in California to bec

Indian nuclear scientists solved the problem of uncontrollable vibrations at the country's largest a

Market For BariumIs MixedThe market for barium carbonate has firmed, while barium ch

CBT Chairman Gilmore Won't Run for 2nd TermCurrent Chicago Board of Trade Chairman John Gilm

A marine archaeologist has a good chance of winning a permit to hunt for a treasure-loaded 16th cent

A former Teamsters official was convicted Wednesday of helping mobsters force air freight companies

Tax payments will rise at Ryder System Inc. but so may earnings as a result of changes in the tax la

A recent statement by the Danish government that it welcomes a Gothenburg- Frede rikshavn rail-ferry

The first U.S. warships to visit China since 1949 arrived Wednesday at Qingdao, where the last U.S.

Argentina exported 711,948 metric tons of grain, oilseeds and grain subproducts in October, down fro

The port of Oakland said it hopes to start on a major dredging project within a year. Oaklan