Commentary

Imagine trying to get government approval to dredge a soybean export canal through a spectacular wet

BLUEDON'T FIT THE STEREOTYPEJames E. Challenger's column on blue-collar employment (''Changi

The rapid emergence of China as a potential world power, and expanding American interests in that co

As they did two months ago in Berlin, finance ministers of the world's seven richest countries made

The question ''Who should make America's liability law - courts or legislatures?'' is not academic.

Next year is the International Year of the Ocean. Yet few in this country have even heard about the

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is in trouble, a victim of complacency and politics.

AN UNFAIR MEDIA ATTACKON CUSTOMS' WEISERecent segments on the ''CBS Evening News'' and ''60

Europe has exposed its myriad national contradictions just as it enters the decisive phase of its po

The so-called Year 2000 problem - widespread meltdown as computers with two-digit data fields can't

They laughed 12 years ago - well, I laughed - when a firm of space morticians announced plans for fu

Earlier this month, a U.S. district court declared the Line Item Veto Act to be unconstitutional. Th

President Clinton's decision to impose economic sanctions on Myanmar, formerly Burma, marks the firs

Like the mythic Greek warrior Achilles, who was invincible except for his heel, many companies commi

A specialized cadre of trade lawyers is locked in an almost theological debate: whether the governme

Whether the cancer overruns his body first or the insurgents take over the capital, it is clear that

Recognizing that financial backing for inefficient state-owned companies is imposing serious burdens

After three years, the tide seems to be shifting in favor of an African trade and investment bill -

The discovery of a trove of 87-year-old 6th-grade book reports is being treated as a fun story, a go

''Fast track'' is in trouble.To some extent, this reflects Congress' traditional reluctance

Given the public discussion, it is tempting to think of China's campaign to join the World Trade Org

Suddenly the most boring British general election campaign in history is becoming interesting.

Private investment into the emerging economies grew at a record pace last year, reaching about $250

Today's summit meeting between President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is bi

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 7 leading industrial democracies wi

A commercial on TV the other night showed us a young, middle-class couple in the throes of a modern

For more than a decade, U.S. trade officials have preached a simple sermon to China: World trade is

Like their counterparts throughout the Americas, Mexico's union leaders have watched their ranks shr

As budget pressures and ''compassion fatigue'' erode support for foreign aid among traditional donor

There are disturbing signs the European Union is preparing to abuse its trust-busting authority to i

Five years after the celebrated 1992 ''Earth Summit'' in Rio, heads of state are preparing for a fol

President Clinton recently offered to make a written pledge to include the nuclear option in the ret

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's policy is proof that when a central bank gradually achieve

A recent editorial in The Journal of Commerce suggests that a preliminary ruling in the World Trade

The Chemical Weapons Convention - an international treaty that outlaws the production, acquisition,

Kremlin officials meet the International Monetary Fund here this week to try to unblock disbursement

The federal government has a hard time rationalizing the different policies of different agencies, e

More than 60 million Americans belong to HMOs, and about two-thirds of them chose this form of cover

Twice a year, the picturesque, serene city of Cannes, France, is taken over by a horde of 25,000 tel

Scary headlines in South Korea have underlined the importance of on-again, off-again peace talks bet