Commentary

''The meeting of the Conference Agreement on Rates and Tariffs in Eastern Lanes will now come to ord

Quiz time: How many economists does it take to make dinner?Answer: Five! One to shop, one to

Last year, the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and European Union leaders established the Trans-At

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto of Japan is off to Latin America soon to fill the void left by the

After months of wrangling, Japan and the United States agreed last week to a semiconductor deal. Sel

As Mexico's economy recovers from recession, the authorities there are addressing the residual banki

China has been trying to join the world trading system for nearly 10 years. In the last two years Ch

LABOR RULES SHOULDAPPLY TO EVERYONEYour July 29 editorial, ''Hypocrisy and child labor'' (Pa

Bob Dole's new tax proposals may not add up, but his economic plan has other things to recommend it.

Terrorism, plague and crime notwithstanding, the biggest hazard facing the overseas business travele

Robert Dole, erstwhile majority leader of the U.S. Senate and prospective Republican candidate for t

Whodunit to whom - organized labor to the railroads, large railroads to short lines, railroads to th

A new kind of terrorism is threatening the West.Free-lance terrorism.Terrorists have become

Greetings, friend! Let me buy you a drink. How about a tall, frosty glass of a highly advertised new

Staggering and out of sync, European countries are marching toward monetary union. If all goes accor

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., is trying to spark a great debate: How can the United States help the A

Scientists have discovered fossils of microscopic bacteria in a 3-billion-year-old Martian meteorite

EX-IM BANK JUSTDOING ITS JOBAmong his many inaccuracies, Ron Gottshall misunderstands the Ex

Leaked intelligence reports about terrorist training camps have sparked new fears about Iran, but th

IN DEFENSEOF SHIPPING SUBSIDIESI read with great interest your article, ''Marad can authoriz

Faced with a sharp drop in tax revenue, Moscow is imposing levies on suitcase-size importers. In doi

A new economic and political dogma is being preached in the current debate on medical and health pol

''Besides, they look like maids.''The phrase echoed inside my head and left me speechless. I

The tragedy of TWA Flight 800 inevitably recalls Pan American Flight 103, brought down by a bomb ove

Imagine a government that would ask its citizens to pay $2 billion to support a foreign aid program

Bob Dole's new economic plan is risky, unrealistic and fated to fail. Although the principle behind

Leveling the fieldfor encryption exportersI am concerned about the federal government's hesi

Americans should be proud of the 26th Summer Olympic Games. For 17 days, Atlanta held the world spel

As the world watches for signs that newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin can maintain his h

Southern California's long-simmering economic resurgence is now truly building up steam after a half

An Aug. 1 Letter to the Editor, ''Setting the Marcus Hook record straight,'' (Page 6A) mistakenly sa

Keeping up with this year's flood of U.S. trade sanctions has been like watching the climactic scene

Bob Dole's new economic plan is a roll of the dice for a presidential candidate who has been going n

The coming 12 months will be critical for the European Union's planned single currency as its two bi

In early July, 119 American executives sent a letter to President Clinton urging him to go slow on s

The global phenomenon of rapid urbanization places before the world something akin to the ''progress

CLARIFYING EXPORTCONTROL POLICYYour recent article, ''Pentagon to cede clearance of exports,

While you were busy working last week, another new bureaucracy was busy spending your money.

U.S. companies still hold out hope that the Export-Import Bank will finance hundreds of millions of

For all the gold being passed out at the 1996 Olympics, none of it compares with the gold being rake