Commentary

President Clinton has inherited an old and inadequate trade agenda from his Republican predecessors.

WORKERS who expect their companies' retiree health benefits to be around when they retire should thi

SHIPPERS KNEW TRUCK RATES WERE WRONGIn an ironic way, it was appropriate that your e

IF PRESIDENT CLINTON thought there was an easy way to reduce the U.S. trade imbalance with Japan, he

The Czech Republic's voucher privatization program, originally seen as the fastest way to convert th

Labor Secretary Robert Reich's new Commission for the Future of Worker- Management Relations is abou

The Clinton administration is still debating whether to grant permanent, unconditional most-favored-

RAPID GROWTH HAS ITS DANGERS, as China's leaders are finding out. The Asian Development Bank

When you live on the East Coast, it's hard to fully grasp the importance of Asia. Many peopl

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MANY AMERICANS HAVE heard of the value-added tax, or VAT. "It's something they have in Europ

A little-known provision of the U.S. tax code has emerged as a major vehicle to finance long-term de

EXPECT SOME TIGHT SMILES when President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa meet tod

The spectacular success of regional trade agreements in the last 10 years means a world increasingly

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown has exiled Herbert Hoover. The former president's portrait has hung for

WHEN IT COMES TO FREER TRADE, talk is cheap. The European Community likes to promote open ma

EVERYONE LOVES TO HATE the Internal Revenue Service, especially the millions of taxpayers who waited

The flame trees are in full bloom in Hanoi this month, a sure sign that school holidays will begin s

WORKING TO MAKE SHIPS SAFERI would like to commend both Michael D. Tusiani and Lars

Enter the numbers game. It's under way this week in Tokyo. Finance and foreign ministers fro

Students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, one of the territory's three universities, are a re

The rate of inflation accelerated in the first quarter. The consumer price index rose at a seasonall

Much has been said and written about the threat of nuclear terrorism in Russia and the need for the

FREE TRADE has enriched the United States immeasurably during the last 45 years. A more open trading

ANYONE who has dealt with sprawling bureaucracies and unresponsive civil servants - just about every

Last month, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jack Brooks, and Patrick Leahy, a member

Washington is gearing up for sweeping health-care reform with much happy rhetoric about expanding ac

The European Community is in a state of limbo, with its member states engulfed in domestic traumas t

SEAPORTS, with their bustling docks, industrial waterfronts and rail and truck yards, are centers of

The fuss over President Clinton's stimulus package seems trivial to the economic cognoscenti, a clas

OVERSHADOWED BY THE BORIS AND BILL SHOW earlier this month, President Clinton's Northwest timber sum

COMMERCE SECRETARY RON BROWN, a fund-raising whiz while chairman of the Democratic National Committe

After losing the first few major battles on Clinton administration budget proposals, Senate Republic

Mexico has done very well recently attracting foreign capital, especially to its 2,500 maquiladora a

SUPPORTING U.S.-FLAG CRUISES TO NOWHEREI was disappointed by your March 22 editorial, "Marit

While the experts working on Hillary Rodham Clinton's task force on health care have now been identi

FINALLY, an encouraging sign from France on the world trade talks. After years of obstructionism, es

FIGURING TAXES is rarely easy; for investors with foreign holdings, it can be mind boggling. Governm

In the headlong pursuit of a great goal, there is the danger that mistakes will be made and become e

On Feb. 18, President Clinton called on the nation to "focus, unite and act" to "make our economy th