Commentary

Customs Itself Poses Brokers' Big ProblemI read with a great deal of interest the report by

The two primary entities of our maritime industry are the commercial fleet and the shipyards. The de

I'm uneasy about Pat Robertson's campaign for the presidency. I think I am not alone. Mr. Ro

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY James Burnley's initial round of congressional appearances on the DOT budge

IF YOU ASK a wrong question, you're likely to get a wrong answer. That axiom fits nothing mo

WHEN IT COMES to praying in public, the United States is a leading member of the Church of Free Trad

WITH THE RELEASE last week of President Reagan's fiscal 1989 budget, we have another achievement fro

There is little, if any, support in Australia for a free trade agreement with the United States.

Inaccuracies Marred Airbus ArticleA recent article on Airbus (Jan. 25) contains a number of

The economic depression plaguing world commerce and trade for the past seven years has had particula

ELSEWHERE ON THIS PAGE, Transportation Secretary James Burnley takes issue with a recent editorial q

The Public Broadcasting System in December and January aired the The Politics of Food, which touched

Since the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates was established after World War II, the role

OVER THE VIGOROUS objections of the Justice Department, Congress is about to pass a bill that repudi

IT'S BEEN FOUR LONG YEARS since the United States first voiced its objections to Brazil's nationalis

Let's start with a small confession. A few days before the New Hampshire primary, a friend asked me

WHY IS THE ECONOMY slowing down? The answer, claims the Economic Report of the President, is to be f

President Reagan sent Congress his seventh and, for practical purposes, final budget last week. The

For an economy originally developed on the premise of a continually abundant labor supply, it is som

IT MAY BE BOUND IN BABY BLUE, but the Economic Report of the President, the annual volume in which t

Did you know that President Reagan signed the free trade deal with Canada on Jan. 2 without dressing

Soviet Human Rights: Arbitrariness PrevailsIf Thomas H. Naylor's Jan. 28 column Unlink Emigr

After the fall of the dollar and the crash of Oct. 19, many commentators have argued that a new trad

AT LONG LAST, the Interstate Commerce Commission has seen fit to intervene in the stormy affairs of

After the successful summit meeting of the European Community earlier this month, West Germany has e

All generalizations are wrong, including this one. If a person is going to generalize in pri

THERE'S BEEN VERY LITTLE PUBLICITY about Senate-House conferees' work on one of the more controversi

PENSION FUND ADMINISTRATORS who were too heavily invested in the stock market on Oct. 19 might think

I find few things better when having a week off than to read books by my intellectual betters while

THE INDICTMENT OF A FOREIGN political figure in a U.S. court is a questionable undertaking to begin

THE FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION is faced with a knotty dilemma in its efforts to bring about equitab

FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP. won't begin flying packages to Japan until May. But even before opening its se

The United States is now Uruguay's second largest trading partner, but growing world protectionism a

James Joyce was 25 years old and grubbing for pennies as a Berlitz language teacher in Trieste when

EDI Involves New TerminologyYour EDI Exchange column of Jan. 7 stating the 10 things I thoug

This city's chief industry is the creation of policies and programs for the rest of the nation. Occa

At the dawn of the 1988 presidential campaign, the crash of stock markets worldwide is a grim remind

THE GOOD NEWS is that the European Community managed to get through last weekend's crucial meeting o

Millions of older Americans will soon be forced to pay more for their Medicare benefits when Congres

IT'S ALL OVER but the formal vote: With President Reagan's endorsement finally in hand, the director