Commentary

Japan could rise from its economic slump by deregulating five key sectors of its economy, the Organi

An important preamble to China's accession to the World Trade Organization is playing out this week

For almost 20 years, people have been worrying about whether the electric and magnetic fields in the

The recent summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the Philippines was a crucial ev

It was only a fender-bender, a minor rear-ending of a car in the parking lot of a Boise, Idaho, shop

LOOK WHO'SFOR FREE TRADE NOWIn rightly criticizing China's plan to set ocean cargo prices in

While many in corporate America tried to cozy up to President Clinton during the campaign, there is

The campaign to repeal or roll back major portions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportuni

The Port of New York's No. 2, Frank Caggiano, is leaving. So is Tacoma's Executive Director John Ter

America learned long ago that what's good for General Motors isn't necessarily good for the country.

Vietnam has moved quickly to open its economy to competition and foreign investment, but its progres

The Netherlands remains Europe's best-kept secret, quietly and successfully grafting economic libera

Free trade is a concept organized labor views with profound suspicion. Despite mounting evidence to

THE OTHER SIDE OF AHOTEL LABOR DISPUTEThis letter concerns your Oct. 23 article entitled ''A

For centuries, physicians have agonized over ways to bring greater precision to the art and science

America's role as the leading producer of such high-tech goods as advanced avionics and lasers gives

President Clinton apparently can't decide who should head his National Economic Council.The

We're mediocre! We're mediocre!U.S. students will be first in the world in math and science

I'd like to use this space today to bash big business. If the media are as liberal as some critics s

Handsome, square-jawed Peter Bijur, president and CEO of Texaco Inc., is a thoroughly modern busines

Not too long ago, most economic analysts and old ''Asia hands'' were predicting gloom and doom over

Britain's 1997 budget, dubbed ''judicious and prudent'' in local editorials, sends mixed signals to

EQUITABLE SPELLS OUTOVERSEAS POLICY RULESI would like to correct a misstatement by an Equita

One of the least-known features of the bruising, $10 billion battle for control of Conrail is that n

NVOCCS ARE VITAL PARTOF MAERSK'S BUSINESSYour article of Nov. 20 regarding transatlantic non

The idea of reorganizing the U.S. international trade bureaucracy is an old one.President Ca

It was interesting to be in London when the alliance between British Telecom and MCI was announced.

The week of Thanksgiving always brings out the temptation to celebrate this most American of holiday

The European Union is well on its way to a having a single currency by the year 2000, but a uniform

Trade and transport go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. And if you control one, y

The rapid growth of the economy of China is attracting increased interest on the part of American in

The U.S. economy grew at an average annual rate of 2.47 percent during the first Clinton administrat

Although their work is not front-page news, negotiators from the industrialized economies are puttin

One of the benefits of belonging to the European Union for small countries is that they get the chan

Mercosur, the trade pact among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, has recently come under atta

CATCHING UP WITH SMALL,HISTORIC 'ALPHABET ROUTE'Long before there were only large mega-railr

Last year, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a landmark bill supported by both Rep

Pacific Rim leaders concluded their summit Monday with a master stroke of ambiguity: a call for the

Medigoguery, the demagoguing of Medicare reform, is passe. The next wave of bipartisan health-care s

For 50 years the superpowers have kept tight control over their respective nuclear arsenals. Now tha