Commentary

Of all the deficits afflicting Asia these days, none is more detrimental to the region's recovery th

Asian crisis or not, global trade will grow by as much as 7 percent next year, the World Trade Organ

America's toy shoppers are racing down the homestretch now, and they're expected to spend even more

A European Union charge that an obscure provision in the U.S. tax code unlawfully subsidizes exports

Due to an editing error, an opinion piece on Dec. 18 Page 6A under the headline ''No dispute: The WT

The signing last week of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development convention crimin

By eliminating more than $5 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, we cou

The U.S. government, at last, seems to have a sustained interest in the development of sub-Saharan A

China roundly applauded this week's decision by the European Commission to recognize some of its ref

There's no doubt that last week's British government conference on Nazi gold was a great achievement

Why do companies and government agencies continue to use outmoded technologies to clean up contamina

For 20 years, U.S. businesses lost billions of dollars in overseas business deals to unscrupulous fo

The Asian contagion is spreading. After speculative bubbles burst in erstwhile economic powerhouses

California Gov. Pete Wilson recently struck a small but significant blow against the massive civil l

GENERAL AVERAGE: THE CASEOF 3 GUYS AND A VOYAGETom Baldwin's column on the Mediterranean Shi

Santa may still come via Ohio, the home of America's three top toy manufacturers. But he is getting

It's the consumer-protection news of the season. Some brands of hanging icicle lights, a favorite it

Philadelphians are celebrating. After months of negotiations, the city completed a deal this week wi

KYOTO SUPPORTERSIGNORE REAL COSTSRobert Repetto and Cresencia Maurere argue (''Climate Pact

The projected computer meltdown in the year 2000 caused by the so-called millennium bug is more than

On the very day the president of the Bundesbank and a senior German politician suggested it might be

No sooner had President Clinton made the momentous decision to get a dog than the questions began.

There is good news for Americans despite last week's preliminary ruling by a World Trade Organizatio

Here's one for you: Why did the travel agents postpone their meeting in Washington last week?

U.S. policy in the Middle East - more specifically the Persian Gulf - has always been based on the b

In an unprecedented decision, the European Union's court ruled that France ''restricted trade'' by l

It's unusual for the Environmental Protection Agency to announce a full-scale review of a new regula

The local elections held last month in Taiwan drove home two points that should be taken to heart by

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that U.S. employment and wage growth for November w

The U.S. shipping industry was recently given a loud warning about the fragility of the 1916 law tha

Critics of the financial services agreement just reached in Geneva say it doesn't go far enough. Sup

On Oct. 23, at the height of the recent Asian financial crisis, the FTSE 100 - the index of shares i

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad's call this weekend for Southeast Asia to buy locally and

If ever an organization needed a trophy to hold aloft, it was the World Trade Organization last week

After a public outcry, the American Medical Association recently canceled its contract to endorse Su

At the Kyoto climate change conference, U.S. negotiators lobbied hard for a global emissions trading

Laura Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas, who once wrote the letter that drew the immortal ''Yes, Virginia''

U.S. relations with Russia and China are frequently in the spotlight. In the United States, the focu

Electric utilities, which are among America's last government-regulated monopolies, are under siege.

The negotiation of an emergency loan package with the International Monetary Fund is a major step an