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Jakarta has voiced outrage at what's happening in East Timor, the Indonesian province where the popu

Another opening, another show. And so it goes! Internet World has just ended and Comdex looms on the

Shipowners in the trans-Pacific announced last week that they intend to raise their rates next year

Congress once again is struggling with two contentious issues: truck safetyand rail regulatory polic

Get ready for a media event seven weeks from now when the World Trade Organization opens a key inter

For centuries, cooks have tenderized meat by pounding it with a mallet or similar implement. Now a P

If the global economic outlook has you down, you must have missed the recent International Monetary

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's Federal Open Market Committee left interest rates unchange

It is now more than a year since the Russian financial crisis threatened to destabilize the global e

The French are a strange race. They might play good football, and they certainly play adventurous ru

Whatever happened to the Federal Maritime Commission's investigation of shipping rates on Asian impo

The U.S. merchandise trade deficit is setting new records almost monthly. Every new story on the top

Take a close look at what's happening at West Coast ports these days.Congestion at container

Amid all its other problems right now, the last thing the embattled Bank of New York must have expec

I was greatly saddened to hear of the passing of George F. Lowman, chairman and chief executive offi

The Clinton administration's recent decision to reduce sanctions on North Korea, and reports of wart

Former Vice President Dan Quayle isn't the only politician to rearrange some basic facts in public.<

Most of the recent news reports about America's rising trade deficit assume that imports raise unemp

Hidden away behind China's public celebrations last week of the 50th anniversary of the establishmen

Only one year after merger, DaimlerChrysler's CEO is forcing out several key American executives. Th

We no longer live in an inflation-prone economy, and this is a global reality.Globalization

Mix together a high crime rate, fear and cost-consciousness, and you have an innovation that's taken

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, once known as the Bank of Boeing because of its emphasis on big-ticket

Nigeria is awakening. After decades of military rule, our country has moved aggressively to restore

History repeats.Nearly two decades ago, governors of Great Lakes states worried about water-

Your article headlined ''Accounting firms develop specialties in international trade, customs rules'

Market leaders never plan to fail. That may partly explain what has happened to Norfolk Southern Cor

Once upon a time, Iomega dominated the world of tape backups. But it came to pass that the Prince of

For many, the judgment is already in about the Clinton administration's policy toward Russia. Allega

George Lowman, who died Saturday at the age of 82, didn't become an active shipping executive until

It's difficult to understand how Congress could be against a practical program that helps developing

Had Akio Morita been instrumental solely in the development of post-war Japanese manufacturing, or t

September's weakness in common-stock prices may well have a gold lining. A sharp drop in the U.S. st

East and Central Europe are no longer the flavor of the month in the capitals of the European Union.

Tony Blair has done it. Gerhard Schroeder is botching it. Lionel Jospin can't make up his mind wheth

Governor Masaru Hayami of the Bank of Japan is a tough, market-savvy veteran of many monetary and fi

The sanctions debate is heating up again since President Clinton lifted ourtrade embargo on North Ko

New York City has the chance to overcome its isolation from the North American goods-movement system

Mercantilism is not only bad trade policy, but it is bad health policy as well. In the 1980s blood-b

We all know that it is more comfortable to resort to cliches rather than to look at hard facts.<