Commentary

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION was busy last week. On the same day the ICC improved its truck s

AS TRUCKS HAVE INCREASED in size and number, so has the government's interest in making them safer.

America's victory in the Gulf War will make it harder than every for Tokyo to say no to Washington o

Sen. Donald Riegle, D-Mich., will lead a Senate effort to thwart U.S.-Mexican free trade negotiation

DISCOUNT STORES SERVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE in our society, providing consumers who don't want or need

Congress has a little-noticed but highly demanding task before it this session: updating century-ol

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SAMUEL K. SKINNER made the right decision this week when he agreed to dela

In a visit to the stores over the weekend, I found almost everything was on sale. A good deal could

Rep. Donald Pease, D-Ohio, is expectedto introduce legislation this week to modernize the U.S. Custo

MEXICO'S PRESIDENT, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, has been on the road to drum up support for a North A

Despite hopes to the contrary, de-bilitating overcapacity in the world's container shipping trades a

With the Feb. 5 release of the Treasury Department's proposal, banking reform will be a high priorit

SHIP PACT UNDERMINES COMPETITIVENESSOn March 27 you ran two portentious front page stories -

MOST OF THE NATION'S RAILROADS could be shut down by a strike next Wednesday, but no one is likely t

JAPAN IS NOT AMERICA'S economic enemy. Nearly a dozen trade agreements signed by the two countries i

CHINA FELL FROM GRACE with the world after the Tiananmen incident in the spring of 1989. But Chinese

During its 70-year history, the People's Republic of Mongolia has been dominated by its neighbor to

The U.S. economy fell at a rate of over 4 percent during the first quarter, more than double its dec

Carlos Moore, executive vice president of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, is the autho

A hidden policy bomb was plant-ed in Congress on March 1, and lawmakers apparently have no idea of i

It doesn't sound terribly dangerous. In fact, it sounds downright dull. But it has touched off riots

NO FAST-TRACK, NO FREE TRADEI disagree with conclusions of "U.S., Mexico Face Social Losses"

IF IT'S BROKEN, FIX IT. If it can't be fixed, replace it with something new. Shipping lines particip

EUROPEAN ELECTRONICS companies are not alone in turning to government to help solve their competitiv

Selling trade liberalization on Capitol Hill has never been easy. Now the administration finds itsel

THANKS TO SOUND policy decisions and a good public relations campaign, the European Community has co

THE STAGE MAY BE SET SOON for a new International Trade Commission chairman. Don Newquist, a

Many Americans praise Japan's educational system but few realize that the excellence ends with high

THE UNMISTAKABLE STAMP of government showed itself again this week when the Coast Guard issued volun

It's time to do that little exercise where we look at our home planet from outer space and see what

The Supreme Court last week issued an important ruling that limits the opportunities for workers emp

JAPANESE ELECTRONICS manufacturers feel they are damned if they do and damned if they don't - or rat

In the "best of all possible worlds," a free trade agreement with Mexico would be easy to negotiate

PRICES FOR MANY consumer goods in the Soviet Union doubled and tripled Tuesday, part of an economic

BUILDING CARS THAT are more fuel-efficient usually means making them smaller, but smaller cars don't

Less than six months ago, East Germans were looking forward to a quick ''economic miracle." Today th

GET ALL THE FACTS ON US-MEXICO PACTWesley Smith's article, "Debunking Free Trade's Critics"

Despite much official U.S. rhetoric, American policy by and large has blinked at Chinese human right

IT WAS NO SURPRISE that Japan took most of the heat last week when the Bush administration released

Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's designs on the rest of Yugoslavia may not be so apparent to the