Commentary

President Clinton's controversial trip to Russia last week highlights the need for a comprehensive a

Business is back to normal for the Export-Import Bank and China - at least for now.Not only

December 2002: As Iraqi troops mass once again on the border with Kuwait, the president mobilizes U.

HOLDING NEGLIGENTEMPLOYERS LIABLEYour recent coverage of the debate swirling around New York

Boris Yeltsin is back. Russia's mercurial president, who was given up for dead earlier this year, ha

Chocolate will never be the same, now that the European Union has expanded the definition to allow v

The closer companies get to Vietnam, the less attractive a marketplace it seems to be. To anyone who

A good way to evaluate any government-sponsored trade mission is to ask the ''who'' question. Namely

Superfund, the federal program for cleaning up hazardous waste disposal sites, is a disaster. Since

As the countdown continues to July 1, 1997, when Britain will transfer sovereignty over Hong Kong to

America is having its seasonal tryst with pontification, catchy phrases and empty promises.I

In President Clinton's foreign policy firmament there is no more vexing problem than China.T

At its session in San Jose, Costa Rica, this week, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin

More bad news for the doom and gloom crowd. The International Monetary Fund says the world economy w

Last month, the trade ministers of the 34 democratically elected governments of the Western Hemisphe

I read with dismay the attack on Conrail - thinly disguised as a defense of the widely opposed Union

IN SUPPORTOF BETTER HIGHWAYSCritics of the federal Highway Trust Fund and efforts to take it

Mickey Kantor - the pragmatist, the fixer, the man who laughs at free-trade ''theology'' - might wel

Southern California's ports have a congestion problem. The state Legislature, not surprisingly, has

Having shaken off six years of the worst state recession since World War II, California, which lost

For no apparent reason, the Clinton administration has reversed itself by clearing an arms shipment

When the Soviet empire collapsed, a key question vexed economists: how to switch from a planned to a

President Clinton's visit to Japan this week has not - for a change - been dominated by trade disput

''I think it is totally wrong to be taking that money in as a user fee and then transferring it to h

The language wars are heating up in Quebec.A couple of weeks ago, in Montreal's own version

SHIP PACTWILL HURT USYour April 1 editorial (''Ratify the Ship Pact,'' Page 6A) is misleadin

It would be wrong to say that relations between China and Taiwan had returned to normal after Beijin

Pat Buchanan's failed campaign for the Republican presidential nomination seems doomed to become lit

A retired Army colonel paints houses for a living. A former general sells used cars to make ends mee

The long-term slowdown in growth is the principal problem facing America. The equally long-run decli

The airplane crash that claimed the life of 7-year-old Jessica Dubroff has triggered a national deba

Health care reform in France is one of the government's biggest headaches. Curtailing the country's

By appointing Mickey Kantor, his top trade negotiator, as secretary of Commerce, President Clinton s

Several weeks ago, a high-level, bipartisan council appointed by President Clinton submitted a repor

HARBOR UPKEEPNEEDS TRUST FUNDRep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa, deserves credit for focusing the spotli

Whenever groups of companies get together to sell something, it makes buyers nervous.The rea

A first-round legal reform of product liability has now been voted on by Congress. It's a good start

The world aviation market is bigger than ever, generating $1 trillion in economic activity and more

Lobbyist Ann Eppard, Rep. Bud Shuster's top political aide, seems intent on trying to ''inoculate''

The United States still has a huge auto trade deficit with Japan, but the momentum in the cross-Paci