Commentary

It is a common belief that U.S. service exports will offset the large and persistent U.S. merchandis

CHALK UP another victory for the bureaucracy. The French government has denied five aging Americans

The Journal of Commerce recently printed an opinion article by former ICC Commissioner Gregory Walde

WHERE HAS the Pepsi generation gone? Gone to Starbucks, every one - as Pepsi evidently has discovere

In the late 1980s, while interviewing a U.S. ambassador in Nicaragua at his office during the bloody

Paranoia is patrolling our borders, and U.S. politicians are keeping step. California Gov. P

BIG CORPORATE MERGERS are all the rage, and railroads have joined the action. Three important rail d

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT transportation bills of the decade cleared Congress Monday withouta hitch.

CARTOON ON DOCTORS' INCOMES: NOT FUNNYI have never bothered to write to a publication before

A recent news story from the Associated Press suggests that disillusionment is setting in inGaza and

In less than three years - on June 30, 1997 - Hong Kong, the unabashed capitalist enclave,will becom

As the Haitian generals continue to block the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, democracy

Last Friday was a bad day on Wall Street. Stock and bond prices took a dive and interest rates rose

In Japan, where group-based culture is so strong that even salesmen within a companyare paid the sam

WINSTON LORD, the administration's Asia policy chief, restated America's ''staunch support"for admit

AFRICA'S MISERIES seem endless. Horrifying reports of disease and starvation are becoming sadly comm

This city has lost its raison d'etre, as it has done every August for the past 35 years when the Eur

SLOWLY, PAINFULLY, Congress is moving ahead with a bill to implement the biggest trade deal in histo

When I first introduced the Employment Dispute Resolution Act in 1992, it was needed to ease the bur

THINK BIG ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENTSThe Yukon and Tierra del Fuego are the alpha and omega of

FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE of why so many nations distrust the United States, take a close look at the shipy

Why John Stocker resigned from the Shipbuilders Council of America has been the source of muchspecul

As Congress moves to take up revisions to the Export Administration Act - the law that is the basis

Formal debate on health care legislation will begin this week in Congress, where Senate and House De

VENEZUELA DEFENDS ITS ECONOMIC PLANYour July 28 article, "Venezuela's Economic Crisi

CHINA CAN BE A DIFFICULT PLACE to do business, what with overt trade barriers, inconsistent commerci

PRESIDENT CLINTON talks a good game on free trade, and sometimes - as in the Nafta fight last year -

Unemployment has been increasing in Western Europe for 20 years. By 1993 more than 17 million people

Many Americans think of Washington, D.C., as a city of great monuments and marble places. Others may

For most of the postwar era, when the industrialized nations sneezed, the emerging countries of Asia

The Uruguay Round trade deal was negotiated to help expand world markets for U.S. and other exporter

ISRAEL AND JORDAN, whose agreement last week ended 46 years of war, are losing no time getting down

DISASTER PROTECTION BILL FILLS A NEEDThis letter responds to the inaccurate depiction of the

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan likes to brag about his success in reducing inflation. He to

WITH PROTESTS mounting here and in Europe, U.S. regulators are launching a formal probe of the shipp

Did you know that wherever you live in the country, you are "protected" by California against grower

It is common political sport to complain that business is too big, firing here, slashing there, acqu

AMID LAST WEEK'S clamor in Congress over the pending world trade deal, the Clinton administration sc

In a recent series of essays, Stanford economics professor Paul Krugman critiques the concept of nat

No freight moved by rail in Britain for the better part of three days last week as striking signalme