Commentary

Should major government contracts be awarded to rogue corporations that refuse to obey the law? Amaz

I thank David Ainsworth, a well-known attorney for ocean carriers, for his willingness to publicly e

There is a near-term alternative for the cost-effective replacement of the aging U.S.-flag container

The Transportation Research Board has concluded its long-awaited report on airline competition. The

Spam has become the four-letter word of the Internet. All of us are plagued by it and have quickly l

The Commerce Department's thumbs-down on a controversial oil-dumping complaint is as sensible as it

The decision by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Alitalia, Italy's national carrier, to launch a 50-50 j

This summer I met eight 12-year-old entrepreneurs.Hailing from an economic and ethnic cross-

Solar eclipses are well-worn plot devices in tales about societies that are ancient, primitive, or b

If future U.S. budget surpluses materialize, the Treasury Department has little choice but to establ

''International exhaustion:'' It sounds like what happens to cross-border travelers after a schlep a

Gerber, a leading brand of American baby food, just bowed to pressure from Greenpeace.The co

How about a kind word for the scientific pork barrel, Congress's own direct-delivery system for labo

Journalists who write articles about how hard it is to be a journalist rank somewhere below novelist

They came. They reminisced. They left a record for future generations of students and researchers. '

You know local economic prospects are far from bright when a band of robbers looks for a target and

President Clinton's plan to ''refinance our nation's mortgage and then wipe the ledger clean'' poses

It's no surprise that the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 - which went into effect 100 days ago Su

Brazilian steel has been featured prominently in the debate surrounding recent events related to the

I have a question to start off this week's column. It's a simple question, but one that could take s

Israel's new prime minister, Ehud Barak, has moved quickly to deal with major issues facing his coun

The Journal of Commerce's Aug. 4 editorial, ''Basic China issue'' (Page 5) correctly surmises that s

New York state finally adopted its annual budget this week. It was the 15th year in a row the state

On July 29, American consumers and hapless European exporters were punished because the European Uni

Despite the experience with markets, considerable confusion remains over the nature of the relations

Fast-track trade negotiating authority, which obligates the Congress to vote up or down on trade agr

There aren't too many people around who know the trans-Pacific container shipping trades better than

American apparel importers are angry about a sweeping Customs ban and the obscure but powerful agenc

The United States has won several high-profile cases at the World Trade Organization, but it's about

In an attempt to prepare aggressively for a cataclysmic systems failure, the Customs Service recentl

Picture giant pockets of water that suffocate marine life. Shoreline forests uprooted for resort hot

Nothing could be more ominous than the Human Development Report recently issued by the U.N. Developm

When I first heard last week about the Chinese government destroying a religious group's books, I fe

You just can't keep a good student down - or so a British school found.Prestwich School in M

Before congressional Republican leaders break their arms patting their own backs over a $792 billion

I was quite taken aback by the suggestion put forward by European Editor Aviva Freudmann in the Euro

The announcement this industry has long been wondering about and waiting for has finally come.

he international business sector has been focusing with increasing intensity on the major issue of C

Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui's statement that relations with China should be conducted as ''nati

First there was 8088 and 8086, then 286, 386 and 486 and SX and DX.Now there's Pentium, Pent