Commentary

THAT STYLISH ITALIAN SUIT, as many an American traveler has learned, probably costs more in Milan th

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF wetlands has been known for decades, but it was only last November

What can shippers, truckers and railroads expect from Edward J. Philbin, the new Interstate Commerce

''The primary economic goal of my administration," President Bush told the nation in his annual eco

THE COLD WAR THAW has yet to make it to East Asia. While the two Germanys are dismantling their bor

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is demonstrating renewed interest in rooting out corruption in the Internati

By far the least developed element on the way to an economic and monetary union is the institutional

World trade advances and retreats in much the same manner as the business cycle. There have

TRANSPORTATION POLICY ISN'T A WASTE OF TIMEYour Feb. 1 editorial, "Wasting Time," which was

AT THE OUTSET OF 1989, The Journal of Commerce laid out 12 of the major issues we expected our reade

For many years I did not get involved in any Soviet trade, believing the enormity of the country and

The proposal that the U.S. Customs Service charge importers a fee to consider classification ruling

F.W. DE KLERK has awakened South Africans from their desperation. The president's bold announcement

THERE'S NOT MUCH "TRANSPORTATION" in federal transportation policy. The Department of Transportation

My experience obliges me to rebut the proposal that the U.S. Customs Service charge a fee for the is

PRESIDENT BUSH'S DECISION to bar China from owning an aircraft parts manufacturer in Seattle is a po

Corporate profits crashed in 1989. According to preliminary, unpublished estimates by the Commerce D

FOR OVER A YEAR, the Treasury Department could find no need at all to increase the resources of the

Throughout the world, from Eastern Europe to East Asia, from Chile to China, the concept of free tra

This past year has been a bad time for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. A full five years after

ELECTRICITY, AN ENERGY SOURCE Americans take for granted, increasingly is in short supply. The exces

ACID RAIN STAND LACKS BASIS IN FACTI was shocked to read your editorial "Acid Rain Runaround

Opposition is mounting to the recent takeover of Union des Transports Aeriens, France's largest priv

SMILING BRAVELY, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Nicholas Brady, Treasury secretary

The conservative revolutionaries of the late 1970s and early 1980s had someworthwhile things

As the 1990s unfold, the world's financial markets are on the threshold of a technology-driven revol

The Bush administration may be about to revise its customs user fee proposal - again. The Ge

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS UNDER fire for not rushing to take advantage of trade opportunities in th

BOLDNESS HASN'T EXACTLY been the strong suit of the Bush administration's first year. But the presid

The best way to help ensure that America will have enough supplies of electricity to meet growing d

ONCE AGAIN, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan is in a quandary. Wall Street is sagging a

This is dedicated to reporters daily engaged in their own phone hells, editors who may have forgotte

The Jan. 26 editorial "Plowing Coca Under" incorrectly stated the total amount of U.S. drug enforcem

BACK IN THE NOT-SO-DISTANT days of Ronald Reagan, when mammoth budget deficits were beginning to mou

Your Jan. 10 editorial, "End Freight Rate Game," demonstrates a total lack of knowledge on the subj

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, as Defense Secretary Richard Cheney is fond of noting, like to cut defense spen

STORY ON DISPERSANTS CLARIFIED, AMPLIFIEDThe recent article on dispersants ("Oil Spill Chemi

SOMETIMES, PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE. In other cases, all it does is waste time. The indications are moun

Until President Bush presented his new budget, last week had been an unsettling time: * Scie

Congress should seize a historic opportunity to redesign one of the principal vestiges of the Cold W