Commentary

Lamb Quota Doesn't Belong in Trade BillOur firm represents the Australian Meat and Livestock

WITHIN 15 SHORT MINUTES Wednesday night, President Reagan managed to offer the prospect of a serious

The story of how The Journal of Commerce got started has been told before, but it bears telling agai

True or false: Ronald Reagan is a free trader. Most Americans would probably answer "true."

AS ONE NEAR-COLLISION after another makes every flight an adventure, a coalition of special interest

THE LAST THING THE shipping industry and the International Longshoremen's Association need is anothe

Ontario Premier David Peterson, the urban professional and organization man, is the rising star of C

Malaysia and the United States need not have a special relationship," but they should have a solid o

The Chinese government has applied to resume its status as a contracting party of the General Agreem

THE MASSIVE GRANITE federal courthouse on New York's Foley Square, site of countless famous acts of

Judging by the reactions of some congressmen and certain self-appointed arbiters of the "public inte

When the Senate recently voted by a substantial margin to repeal the windfall profit tax, it struck

The numbers tell the familiar story. Japanese companies are continuing to sell far more of their pro

CHINA IS LAUNCHING a cultural revolution of a different sort. Worried about bourgeois attitudes amon

ATTACKING UNFAIR TRADE is all the fashion these days. But maritime provisions buried in the trade bi

Should financial institutions experience the benefits and discomforts of monetary policy, or should

If the world economy is to flourish again, the industrial countries must grow at a faster pace and t

The process started slowly and almost unnoticed. In January 1985, upon retiring from the European Co

THE HOPEFUL PROMISE of free trade with Canada has evaporated in the hot sun of a Washington summer.

The United Auto Workers and the two major producers, General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. have be

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE Clayton Yeutter's assessment last week that odds are substantially lessthan 50-

We can achieve a good agreement on trade with Canada. Congress has been encouraging such agr

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, where all things American have a special cachet, one less-than-desirable Americ

THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY seems afflicted by an ostrich complex. That is the only explanation fo

As the United States has become the world's largest debtor nation, some observers have questioned wh

Local Phone Rates Not Correct in StoryThe average cost of local telephone service in New Yor

The Journal of Commerce celebrates a birthday, its 160th, Sept. 1. That makes it by far the oldest b

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES effectively voted this week not to abandon $10 billion in national asse

WHO OWNS THE AIRWAVES? That, in a nutshell, is the question behind the Federal Communication

Enacting a trade bill will not cure the trade deficit. Even avid proponents of trade legislation exp

MINIMUM WAGES ARE out of fashion in the free-market environment of the 1980s. But as Congress debate

Of the various elements of today's economic scene, three are of major importance not only for the tr

CREDENTIALISM IS RAPIDLY reaching epidemic proportions. Ability, skill and experience, it seems, cou

A pension plan time bomb is ticking in our economy that has led to ill- conceived legislation being

FOR UNDERSTANDING amid confusion, humans often lean on the crutch of history. The bitter pol

As the free trade talks between Canada and the United States drag on, doubters on both sides of the

Our planet is suffocating from an overdose of humbug. Have you stopped to consider lately th

WILL SAIPAN BE the next Hong Kong? That unlikely prospect is the latest worry of the U.S. cl

For six months, U.S. Sovietologists have been sternly warning us that General Secretary Mikhail S. G

LOCKHEED CLOSES its Portland shipyard and puts its Seattle yard up for sale. Northwest Marin