Commentary

Fire at sea has always been one of the most feared of maritime casualties. On the night of July 12,

A new Coast Guard regulation titled ''Year 2000 (Y2K) Reporting Requirements for Vessels and Marine

For years, speculation focused on the question, ''Will they, or won't they?'' Then debate turned to

In 1992, President Bush decided to terminate the Voluntary Restraint Agreements (VRAs) on steel prod

President Clinton recently proposed to add coverage of prescription drugs to the Medicare program. I

I can almost imagine one person at a wedding whispering to another, ''So they finally did it.''<

Game over. The fat lady has sung. Case blown up and dismissed. That's the only conclusion that can b

The Clinton administration got a sharp reminder this week that its plan to shrug off financial respo

In response to the opinion article ''Promises, promises from the Customs Service'' (July 12, Page 9)

One thing you gotta love about the government is its ceaseless ability to do one thing with one hand

Barring a last-minute logjam over secondary political details, the World Trade Organization's Genera

On Dec. 20, after more than four centuries, Portugal will hand over its authority for Macau to the P

I have to respond to the recent column by Alan Abrams (''It's the telephone, stupid,'' July 15, Page

If China devalues its currency, will it trigger a new Asian financial crisis? Reports this week that

T.S. Eliot once wrote ''Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the sh

''Dysfunctional'' seems to be the descriptive word of choice among the many diagnosticians who have

It's easy for the United States to feel righteous about its latest move in the trans-Atlantic trade

Twenty years ago this month, a 41-year-old woman from the north of England led a small group shreddi

Globalization is already a fact of life in the international missile and military armaments communit

Quotable criminal Willie Sutton had a quick and accurate answer when he was asked why he kept robbin

In the months that have passed since our proposal to let foreigners own and control U.S. airlines (M

I've been carrying a 260-mega-byte hard drive in my shirt pocket.The folks at Calluna Techno

A lack of confidence in trade liberalization has taken root in the environmental community.T

Your article ''Mexico FTZ plan would aid goods flow'' (July 8, Page 1) states that border clearance

Transportation is often overlooked and usually taken for granted - until it fails. Then it's highly

Think of this the next time you reach for that first cup of java in the morning: For consumers in th

Destroying a myth that has been promulgated for 50 years takes some time. Just ask Lee Teng-hui, pre

Recently, I left an engineering career to launch an e-commerce venture. My brother Joe, an attorney,

The latest signs indicate that Norfolk Southern and CSX are improving operations after six weeks of

On the surface, Americans have everything to cheer about during their summer vacations, while Europe

A 1996 law aimed at spurring privatization of U.S. airports is finally beginning to bear fruit.<

You are still trying to collect $2.5 million from a foreign agency for farm seeds you sold it more t

There's something about the Japanese way of doing business that makes it a little different from the

The inefficiencies produced by the quota system on imports of textiles and apparel can be staggering

The moon landing 30 years ago was one of those ''happenings,'' an event that makes you remember what

The mood is still one of caution. Investors are whispering it softly. But financial markets believe

Joseph Miniace, president of the Pacific Maritime Association, is at it again, accusing the Internat

By extending the benefits of computers to the exchange of information between suppliers, manufacture

Much of the U.S. business community and the Clinton administration have expressed great enthusiasm f

In the short history of post-communist Russian trade, the agreement on steel signed with the U.S. De