Commentary

U.S. policy toward Iraq is in disarray. The United States has almost no chance of succeeding in its

Long before the federal government unveiled plans last week to protect 27 million workers from repet

Thanksgiving is Thursday, and in many American homes plans are in full swing to celebrate our nation

I am pleased that The Journal of Commerce (''Customs Declaration,'' editorial, Nov. 9, Page 5) agree

Like a zoom lens, human faces reveal the condition of a society better than a Nobel-prize winning hi

Now that Washington and Beijing have reached agreement concerning accession of the People's Republic

ometimes art relects reality. Sometimes it reflects public perception. And sometimes it reflects bot

t may seem curious that the workers who physically handle a large chunk of the nation's internationa

Get ready for an avalanche of new computers that, I promise you, will be bigger, better and faster t

You're in a concert hall, the conductor comes out, he raises his baton, the orchestra is poised to b

In recent weeks, a vigorous debate has unfolded about the relationship of trade and the environment.

''Take us to the reservation or fight!''That was the last offer by the greatest fighter who

We in shipping are in an industry that cannot seem to find consistent profit making - even in period

My compliments on a well-done article about the bulk shipping market (''Market revives along with As

Watching the slow, tortuous pace of action in Washington, it's sometimes easy to forget that fundame

The air is thick with plaudits for the progress that has been made toward peace in Northern Ireland

Over the years, the Agriculture Department has regularly announced its annual sugar tariff rate impo

Many ocean-transportation intermediaries (OTIs) remain bitter about the ''carefully crafted compromi

In ''NIT League head: No changes for OSRA on horizon'' (Nov. 17, Page 23), Ed Emmett suggested that

Earlier this month, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, titular head of the Institutional Revolutiona

The mystery of why EgyptAir Flight 990 dove into the Atlantic, killing the 217 people aboard, is onl

A certain shipping line called me a couple of Sundays ago (no prizes for guessing the company name).

he U.S. Customs Service has begun a final push to get shippers to sign up for its Automated Export S

The Clinton administration released a study recently on the environmental impact of free trade that

As intensive talks continue in preparation for the upcoming World Trade Organization summit in Seatt

The Chinese market is an apt candidate for rapid industrial growth. But there are also a number of f

The pressure groups about to descend on Seattle are not the only ones threatening the launch of seri

Regrettably, National Trade Education Day came and went last week without making much of a ripple in

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sounded positively giddy in press reports of her rem

There are few issues that better reveal the importing community's second-rate status in Washington t

As Congress debates a bill to allow the U.S. Postal Service to enter new markets, a report to lawmak

Several recent industry developments serve to remind us that the transportation industry is more fam

''Blacklisting'' regulations promised by Vice President Al Gore to the AFL-CIO Executive Council are

Britons are an easy lot to please if the results of a survey of national lottery winners are any ind

I was listening to a news report. United Parcel Service stock had hit the market with a bang in the

Anybody who reads this column regularly knows that I am not exactly the biggest fan of Microsoft. So

After more than 30 years as a key catalyst of regional economic development, the Asian Development B

Universal serial bus (USB) technology may finally be living up to all the hype.It seems like

Brian Doherty's recent opinion piece, ''Clubbing America with the anti-sprawl agenda' (Nov. 4, Page

The Jones Act, which provides a protective cocoon for the U.S. shipbuilding industry through a build