Commentary

The upcoming U.S.-European Union summit in London (May 18) and the 50-year General Agreement on Tari

CUSTOMS MISLED EXPORTERSON HARBOR TAX REFUNDSShame on Customs!In a November 1994 Fed

With Asia's financial and economic crisis heating up again, now is not the time to put more pressur

The ''Good Friday Agreement'' on Northern Ireland is the most encompassing and promising peace initi

It's becoming clearer by the day that Asia's economic crisis is not over. Indonesia has been in the

Is Boris Berezovsky, Russia's billionaire financier, a schlemiel or a schlemazel? And as political a

Addressing students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTNEED CLOSER LINKU.S. Trade Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky's comments on

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is too important to be allowed to lapse now that ministers

Every self-respecting country should protect and defend its auto industry at all costs, right? That

A half century ago, when Soviet forces cut off all land routes to West Berlin, U.S. ''candy bombers'

This year, $20 billion of business will be done on the Internet. That's about the size of the econom

Central Asia is a part of the world little known to most Americans. But the tiny republic of Armenia

Secrecy breeds suspicion, and suspicion is what now surrounds Gus Owen, one of two members of the Su

Hopeful sales reps of America's ''Big Six'' accounting firms are barnstorming China on what could we

Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater issued a strong statement recently saying the administration

TEXTILE PACTFALLS SHORTI am compelled to respond to the letter sent to you by Troy Cribb, th

President Clinton's unfortunate tendency to let base politics overwhelm his higher aspirations to li

The era of big government may be over but apparently not the era of big government buildings.

A ''supplemental'' spending bill for almost a billion dollars in back dues to the United Nations was

South Africa's gold mines have been on a downhill slide for more than a decade. The price of their p

This year's U.S. congressional debates over funding of scientific research seem to have more to do w

In its third ballot, Russia's lower house of Parliament, the Duma, late last month confirmed Boris Y

Steps taken last weekend by 11 European Union nations toward eventually giving up their own currency

Globalization breaks down borders - sometimes literally in the case of the European Union, andsometi

Nine years after its students rocked China's Communist leaders with their pro-democracy protests at

Does it get any better than this? The U.S. economy was supposed to have long since slowed down, a vi

Every time a U.S. jury trial ends in a controversial verdict, commentators propose that juries be ab

Should taxpayer money be used to develop technologies that will be licensed to foreign firms? That q

What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, as U.S. semiconductor makers absorbed bodyblows fr

The Federal Reserve is back on center stage. It never completely left the stage, but the spotlight h

Earlier this year, the line-item veto, Republicans' hard-won attempt to restrain a profligate federa

When the economic activities of a society change, so do its employment and jobs. For example,at the

The American Insurance Association has this to say to candidates who complain that they're losing co

Never has the global playing field been so competitive, nor the stakes for countries and multination

A lot of attention these days is devoted to the importance of worldwide brands as companies merge, s

There's gold in Africa's hills but this has nothing to do with minerals. More than 400 countries and

Congress has only itself to blame for the recent litany of Internal Revenue Service abuses.F

Memo to Teamsters:Fasten your seatbelts.A wild ride is about to begin.With the elect

An oil-industry watchdog group has raised questions about the safety of a new $100 million system to