Exports

Like many other foreign journalists, I made the obligatory pilgrimage to Helsinki, Finland, to learn how this country has climbed to the top spots in key international rankings measuring economic, political and social success. The answer, I was told, is...

Congress hit one of this year's low points in June when lawmakers -- over President George W. Bush's veto -- put U.S. taxpayers on the hook for another five years and tens of billions of dollars more in farm subsidies. The reverberations from this...

HONG KONG — Asian stock markets dropped sharply Monday, led by exporters like Canon and LG Electronics, amid worries over slowing global demand and crude prices as Hurricane Gustav bore down on Gulf Coast oil operations. South Korean shares were...

Did that headline just blow your mind? Get used to it. The world of transportation fuel has entered bizarre, uneven times, and this could lead to strange relationships on both the supply and demand sides of the equation, according to......

Soaring sales to Latin America helped South Florida widen its trade surplus in the second quarter, keeping the area on track for another year of record trade in 2008, new data released Wednesday shows. South Florida boosted exports to $26.1 billion...

Record prices for oil and grain pushed the value of Louisiana's worldwide exports to $22 billion over the first six months of 2008, according to a report issued Thursday by the World Trade Center of New Orleans. That represented a 64.4 percent increase...

CHANNAHON—The DeLong family was among the first to notice: All those containers arriving from Asia filled with flat-screen TVs and patio furniture were going back empty, if at all. What if they went back stuffed with Midwestern grain? Sending...

Propelled by a weakening dollar, a surge of exports - especially autos - drove the value of cargo moving through the port of Baltimore last year to a record $41.9 billion, though tonnage increased less than 1 percent, the Maryland Port Administration said...

As one of the world's biggest makers of components for musical instruments, D'Addario & Co. turns out 400,000 guitar and violin strings and 7,500 drumheads a day at its Farmingdale factory. Increasingly, more of those products and others the company makes...

In a year filled with recalls and substandard or tainted consumer products (toys, cribs, children's jewelry, pet food, seafood, toothpaste), the notion that dinnerware was somehow safe seemed naive. Historically, lead has been used in dinnerware's...

The Justice Department on Monday announced the indictment and arrest of a longtime aerospace worker in Southern California for allegedly passing classified documents to China in an elaborate espionage endeavor that spanned two decades and exposed trade...

Oil prices have been levitating since President Bush used the words "Iran" and "World War III" in the same sentence. But geopolitical jitters aren't the only reason oil has risen by more than $30 a barrel in the last year -- and $10 in the last month...