Commentary

US NEEDS TO DEBATE MEXICAN TRADE PACTBen Tonra is right to suggest that more attention shoul

WHETHER OR NOT WAR BREAKS OUT, the United States will be in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for months, even

The genetic-engineering wizardry that tricks cows into producing more milk is under attack as potent

The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in early August, and the doubling of oil prices, has returned attenti

TRADE NEGOTIATORS WHO are not serious about negotiating are doomed to failure. That's the best way t

The International Monetary Fund is close to completing its study of the Soviet economy - a basic ste

ONCE UPON A TIME there were two beggars. They found a loaf of bread and began to argue over it. They

THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC'S emergency meeting on land reform earlier this week yielded watered-down resul

Our puritanism always seems to get the better of our environmentalism. At least that's the way I rea

Tucked away in the deficit reduction bill signed by President Bush on Nov. 5 was a very important pr

POLICY MUST SUPPORT US MERCHANT MARINEI refer to your editorial "Skinner's Choice" (Nov. 19)

POLISH CITIZENS ARE GETTING a taste of democracy at its ugliest. This Sunday, they will vote in runo

ARGENT MARINE IS ALL AMERICANYour editorial (Nov. 21) criticizing the Marad sale of two laid

ELECTRICITY IS ONE OF THE NATION'S most reliable and inexpensive commodities. But if the federal reg

Bush administration policy on food assistance for the Soviet Union may be marching to the beat of a

Given the perceived recession and the growing instability of conditions in the Persian Gulf, it is l

THE PROPOSED MERGER of Southern California Edison Co. and its neighbor, San Diego Gas and Electric

A MOOD OF GLOOM prevails in Brussels among delegates to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

New economic data has confirmed that the economy is in a free fall. As the recession deepens, the fr

Reforming the international anti-dumping code, which sets standards for determining if importers are

Life, someone once said, is unfair. Others narrow the proposition and proclaim that some tra

A black market currency dealer in the lobby of the top-rated Forum Hotel in Bratislava, Czechoslovak

PRESIDENT BUSH KNEW HE would invite the wrath of Congress when he met with Chinese Foreign Minister

WHEN YOU'RE THE U.S POSTAL SERVICE, you don't worry about competition for first class mail. Postal m

TANKER PURCHASER NOT RELATED TO SHELLWe appreciate that your editorial "Good Citizens?" (Nov

Despite Mikhail Gorbachev's richly deserved Nobel Peace Prize, some Japanese leaders still speak of

WITH THE FUTURE OF the multilateral trading system hanging in the balance, the world's trade ministe

When U.S. legislators recently considered the usually humdrum subject of export reform, they sparked

Snarled traffic in many of the Third World's largest cities has led to the construction of new rail

An internal State Department telex from Osaka, Japan, is causing wry amusement here. The muc

IT WON'T CORRECT the dire Soviet food shortage expected this winter, but leaders in the Russian Repu

I can give you all the fancy reasons we appear to be in a recession, butsomehow they don't

Americans should be repulsed by the spectacle of United Airlines and American Airlines picking like

The airline industry is expected to report staggering fourth-quarter losses as a result of the sharp

IS THE U.S. ECONOMY in a recession? Economists have been debating that question for months, but the

IT'S GETTING HARDER to tell the U.S. automakers from the Japanese automakers. Toyota Motor Co.'s ann

ILLINOIS' TRUCKING REGULATORS can't make up their minds. Last summer, state officials struck a blow

The Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is scheduled to conclude at a minist

POINT, COUNTERPOINT ON DUMPING POLICYTrade lawyer Paul Rosenthal's rebuttal of Thomas Thomps

The Bush administration, Congress and much of the surface transportation industry will do battle nex