Commentary

Vacation gives Americans an opportunity to suspend the daily grind and ponder how little free time t

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S resumption of diplomatic relations with Vietnam comes at an important t

MEXICO REPLIES TO UPS COMPLAINTRegarding your editorial on United Parcel Service's d

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S Mexican rescue plan has never been popular in Congress. Now, lawmakers are tryin

In the June 29 Journal of Commerce, my good friend, Adm. Tom Patterson, bewails the loss of the U.S.

NUCLEAR SHIPMENTS CAN BE SAFEThe response by Mike Kernahan to a recent article by Yu

When it comes to trade disputes, underwear lacks the panache of, say, computer chips or luxury cars.

THE BIGGEST RAILROAD MERGER in U.S. history barreled through the Interstate Commerce Commission like

ECONOMIC RECOVERY may be well under way in industrialized nations, but high unemployment is here to

The Ocean Shipping Reform Act now before Congress proposes modest changes to the landmark 1984 Shipp

AMERICA'S TRADE RELATIONS with Canada have been mostly harmonious since last summer, but they are be

SPRINT HAILS DOJ DECISIONYour July 14 editorial regarding Sprint's global alliance with Fran

It's an international agency known by a homely acronym, its functions are unknown to most people in

Maw and Paw were airing themselves out on the front porch here the other day, sitting between the cl

NEED MORE PROOF that America's justice system is out of whack? Seems a golfer in northern Ma

CHINA'S BOOMING ECONOMY can't disguise its continuing repression of political and human rights. Sinc

PUTTING BRAKES ON MASS CONSUMPTIONAlthough you consistently advocate open competitio

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a hero of both President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, campaig

Picture yourself boarding a crowded bus or train in the United States andfinding that almost

FOREIGN SHIPBUILDING SUBSIDIES have been the bane of America's mostly unsubsidized shipyards for the

America's decision to torpedo the international trade talks on financial services is a striking demo

Industrial production in the United States declined at an annual rate of 3.2 percent this spring. Th

TWO YEARS AGO, many customs brokers fought ferociously to stop a new government program called remot

Federal health and safety agencies are supposed to be in the business of saving lives. But working f

A SCARY TRIP ON A NUCLEAR SHIPI read with some amusement Yuichiro Matsuo's July 10 o

The leaders of the European Union have become cantankerous of late, caught up in unseemly, undiploma

EVEN BY WASHINGTON'S STANDARDS, the debate on curbing federal regulations is shameless. Overheated r

OPPONENTS of the Uruguay Round trade deal said it would be used to attack U.S. health and safety law

If you want to see the future of education, don't watch children in theaverage classroom. Wa

Maritime industry lobbyists hope a hearing Tuesday before a House subcommittee sheds light on a Clin

PROPOSED CUTS IN U.S. FOREIGN AID produce anguished cries that America is abdicating its responsibil

THE WORLD'S MOST SWEEPING privatization program is taking off in, of all places, remote Bolivia, and

American presidents as different as Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon and Carter shared a common frustratio

IT IS NOTHING NEW for free traders to attack America's protectionist anti- dumping laws. But when th

The confluence of international trade and antitrust policies presents governments in the United Stat

In cyberspace the U.S. International Trade Commission claims to be "the government's think tank on i

The American idiom has taken the English language into a smoky back room and beaten it to within an

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has thrown a wrench into the plans of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom to

U.S. SHIPPING LINES are facing deregulation, but it is America's seaports that are screaming loudest

MEXICO was supposed to be a land of opportunity after the North American Free Trade Agreement took e