Commentary

Tonight is the Admiral of the Ocean Sea award dinner, the annual black-tie gathering of the U.S.-fla

Nearly all the recommendations of Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater's recent report on the U.S.

Large global corporations are commonly assumed to be at the forefront of using the Internet, and the

The majority of business economists polled recently believe that the Federal Reserve's Open Market C

The lights are burning late these autumn evenings in the offices of the Japan External Trade Organiz

The technology improves, the politics change and the business ebbs and flows, but one thing remains

Sen. William Roth, R-Del., was only partly right when he said that the Senate's passage of African a

You gotta love RealNetworks' response when news surfaced this week that its Internet music software

Seventeen U.S. Merchant Marine Academy midshipmen aboard the training vessel Kings Pointer got an un

The United States' new quasi-ambassador in Hong Kong lost no time in setting out the beneficial ties

Last week The Journal of Commerce Conferences unit took its show on the road to Chicago.The

The Sierra Club recently issued another volley in its ongoing war against sprawl: a report grading e

No matter how much Russia's economy shrinks and its international creditworthiness dwindles, the Kre

Argentina is an especially interesting case study in political democracy. Many of its political lead

This summer was the worst on record for airline flight delays throughout the United States. Things w

THE WASHINGTON POST:The effort by Microsoft to get the proposed budget of the Justice Depart

The Bank of England is planning to double Britain's money supply. If this sounds like bad news for a

Raymond Tyson is in the thick of battle. Beads of sweat form on his forehead as he lurches to swat a

One day you may open your telephone bill and discover a surcharge for sending e-mail. Or you may get

While Congress gleefully concentrates on partisan thrust and parry, a technical trade issue it's ign

Oenophiles beware: Not everything you see in Robert Joseph's ''Good Wine Guide'' is drinkable.

The European Union's bid for a leadership role in a new round of world-trade talks risks being serio

Some critics of the Norfolk Southern Corp.-CSX Transportation Inc. joint purchase of Conrail Inc. ha

With the number of new technologies, pharmaceuticals and forms of artistic expression increasing exp

Iran is slightly more than three months away from the most crucial election since the Islamic revolu

Well before the start of the new round of world trade negotiations later this month, battle lines ar

It sounds so easy.The United States is ''getting fleeced in every way'' in world trade thank

You published an opinion article by Holger Jensen on Oct. 26 headlined ''A subtle tightening of the

Soon the world will gather in Seattle to kick off the next round of trade liberalization talks. As t

Who do you know who is an honorary doctor of humane letters at California State University, an honor

If you conduct business in Europe, how you respond to the euro could mean the difference between you

Gen. Pervez Musharraf may have acted boldly in seizing power in Pakistan three weeks ago, but he's t

Growing anxiety underlies the bright economic news in the country. That may seem ironic at a time th

The end of the Cold War is spawning fresh hope in a little-expected place, Indonesia, where the sele

As surely as wars are won by bleeding, elections are won by choosing. Russian Prime Minister Vladimi

Rep. Henry Hyde may well persuade Congress to eliminate the antitrust immunity that allows ocean car

Word recently leaked out that the United States had lost an important World Trade Organization decis

Who said: ''Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon

Is it premature to move articles relating to ocean transport to The Journal of Commerce commodities

It's not supposed to happen this way.For the second time in a month, a far-right party has t