Commentary

IF ALL GOES WELL, Europe's largest companies soon will be free to buy electricity from anywhere in t

US INTEREST IN HONG KONG IS WELCOMEMary Child's opinion article on the U.S.- Hong Kong polic

The 90-day ban President Bush is expected to propose on new federal regulations may touch the transp

WHENEVER A BILL IN CONGRESS has "fair trade" in the title, watch out: Someone usually is pushing pro

SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS based on ethnic origin are all the rage. Canada has had such a movement for yea

After five very frustrating years of negotiations among 108 countries, the head of the world's princ

LOS ANGELES COUNTY is in danger of awarding a $122 million subway car contract to the second-best bi

Reeling from a still-sour economy and the highest unemployment rates in a decade, American workers m

SHIPPERS' BELTWAY NUMBERS GAMEMy friends in the shipping community have responded to my stat

LOOKING FOR WAYS TO HELP THE ECONOMY, the White House is scrutinizing government regulationsthat cos

Thanks to the extremely rare spectacle of national austerity induced by the private sector, the Unit

Now that it's clear the Bush administration intends to use Israel's request for loan guarantees as l

WHEN AN OIL TANKER runs aground in Alaska or a hurricane devastates South Carolina, the midnight oil

What's ahead in what's left of 1992? Will the U.S.-Japanese trade balance change? Will China lose it

AS IF POLITICAL UPHEAVAL and rising prices are not creating enough turbulence in the former Soviet r

SHIPPERS: MORE THAN A HANDFULAs leaders of three organizations that represent many thousands

Jobs, or the lack of them, are a central issue in the presidential campaign. Lost in the hoopla, how

A trip to a Guangzhou bookstore, just over the border, provides a glimpse of China's tenuous relatio

IN THE RACE TO BUILD the world's fastest supercomputers, Japan's NEC Corp. says it has edged ahead o

OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, the Bush administration will have a golden opportunity to climb down from i

In his 1947 Harvard commencement address, Secretary of State George C. Marshall pledged American aid

One of the challenges facing the new Commonwealth of Independent States is how to balance the centra

What is Germany up to? That question is uppermost in the minds of Germany's partners in the

THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN A TRADE WAR. That's why last week's eleventh-hour U.S.-China accord on copyr

LAST WEEK'S RULING by an international trade panel - concluding that Germany illegally subsidized a

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico created a powerful locomotive for economic growth last

Presidents do two things. Most of them strut and fret their hour upon the stage and then are

In the wake of President Bush's recent Pacific Rim trip, the focus is once again on how best to prom

The International Trade Commission is often called upon to analyze some pretty grim aspects of U.S.

THE GRADES THAT FINANCIAL RATING FIRMS assign to insurance companies are almost as confusing as insu

IRANIANS OWN MORE THAN 1 million VCRs, but Western exporters of videotapes who see the Islamic natio

NO PROBLEMS WITH POSTMASTER FRANKYour Jan. 8 article about the resignation of Postmaster Gen

So, how do you like the real "new world order"? I mean the still emerging new world in which

The resounding victory of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria's first free elections last month -

WASHINGTON'S REVOLVING DOOR has been spinning out of control at the Federal Railroad Administration.

ORDERLY, PRISTINE SWITZERLAND is tackling a very messy problem: how to handle the thousands of drug

The trashing of the U.S. economy by national news organizations is a scandal and a disgrace to Ameri

ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments is a plan to let the market decide how to

FORMER SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, three weeks after his forced retirement from the presidency

Japan didn't say yes but didn't say no to President Bush's appeal for $1 billion to help pay for the