Commentary

Trade retaliation has replaced baseball as the national pastime. From last fall's oilseeds dispute w

No scientific advance has yet been permanently stopped in its tracks by wholesale agreement that it

AMERICAN COMPANIES, by and large, are a creative lot. This week, U.S. airports showed they can be ju

SOME TIME NEXT MONTH, Hillary Rodham Clinton's task force will deliver its long-awaited plan for ove

Sweden is pressing full steam ahead with its application for European Community membership, presente

WITH SOME LUCK, Bill Clinton will get better at his new job during the next few years. His first 100

MASSIVE LAYOFFS are a shock anywhere but especially so in China, where workers have come to expect l

The First Western Large Herd Dairy Management Conference was held in Las Vegasthis month. Th

MONOPOLISTIC PATENT SYSTEM NEEDS REVIEWYour March 25 article on Argentina's drug-patent bill

Imagine a U.S. politician running on this platform: "I have presided over the destructionof your eco

BILL CLINTON is on the verge of making his biggest trade policy blunder yet. White House off

Federal Reserve officials are using a forecast of moderate growth and low inflation to justify conti

BUDGET DIRECTOR Leon Panetta has a solid reputation for honesty, so his assessment that the North Am

The recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa underscored the importance - and difficu

A CALL TO RESCUE THE MERCHANT MARINEThe future of the U.S. merchant marine under the

TRADE DOCUMENTS COULDN'T BE SIMPLERI wish to take exception to your March 24 front-p

Following the Vancouver summit and the Tokyo G-7 meetings, a new "domino" theory is emerging in U.S.

Is it possible to weave into one country's reputation for excellence the longstanding traditions of

QUEBEC'S FRENCH-SPEAKING MAJORITY is becoming more relaxed about English- language incursions into t

DA, DA, NYET, DA That's what Boris Yeltsin wanted in Sunday's four-part Russian referendum,

For many Americans working for the nation's corporations, President Clinton's health-care plan poses

IT ISN'T OFTEN the IRS is thrown for a big loss on a major tax case, but that's exactly what happene

As Congress struggles with the first Clinton budget, it should recall a lessonfrom 1986 when

CONSERVATIVES have been warning President Clinton that over-taxing the rich doesn't yield much new r

A baker's dozen of senators met with Budget Director Leon Panetta last week in an effort to get the

EVER SO SLOWLY, railroads are regaining long-haul business lost to truckers during the last 40 years

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has a talent for wasting money, and the maritime cargo preference laws are Ex

Overnight polls immediately after President Clinton's State of the Union address showed a strong, fa

When President Clinton held his first meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa earlier t

Quotas, targets, benchmarks. Are these carefully defined terms or just code words for gaining a tact

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BILL CLINTON got a lot of mileage during the campaignfrom a simple pr

WHATEVER THE RESULTS of Russia's big referendum on Sunday, there isn't much chance the country will

President Clinton is getting an early look at the soul-trying side of the presidency. The tr

RAIL TAXES WON'T GO TO HIGHWAYSThe Department of Transportation would like to correct the re

Senior officials from some of the world's most dynamic economies gathered for four days earlier this

The North American free-trade agreement is in trouble. Despite the recent affirmation of support by

Economic growth slowed in the first quarter, but the slowdown apparently was modest. Temporary facto

Last week's summit between President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa provided en

IT'S TOUCHING TO HEAR the European Community's heartfelt concerns over the economic reform process i

On April 16, 2002, the U.S. Customs Service announced the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terroris