Commentary

GOVERNMENT HELPS WITH COUNTERTRADEIn your Nov. 13 article "Time to Support Countertrade" (Op

The Bush administration may soon announce plans to extend import quotas on machine tools for several

EVERYONE KNOWS it costs a fortune to give workers fringe benefits such as health insurance and pensi

BOUTROS GHALI, the veteran Egyptian diplomat who takes charge of the United Nations on Jan. 1, will

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS are getting so big they're edging out countries on the Conference Board's

China's alleged use of prison labor to make and export items to the United States at cut-rate prices

This is the make-or-break season for the fragrance industry, a multi-billion- dollar enterprise that

The Middle East conflict has been perceived for far too long as a conflict over territory. But in fa

RAILROAD AND TRUCKING DEREGULATION saved shippers $35 billion a year in lower transportation rates d

ANDEAN COUNTRIES are casting a wary eye on U.S. labor and environmental groups out to scuttle the pr

BUYING GOODS MADE IN THE USAIn "High Cost of Textile Protection," (Dec. 10, Opinion, Page 12

The City of London, the United Kingdom's financial center, is suffering yet another battering in wha

SUPPORTERS OF A MORE CLOSELY integrated Europe won big at last week's European Community summit at M

The forcing down of a U.S. plane on a routine anti-drug mission over Venezuela by a Venezuelan air f

AMERICANS LOVE THEIR CARS, but there's a price to pay for that love affair. New data assembl

The United States is in danger of losing the principal advantage to taxpayers that it is seeking in

Nice going, Commerce Department. The economy isn't bad enough? You had to kill the GNP too?

DEMOCRACY TRANSFORMED EASTERN EUROPE and the former Soviet Union, and it has now done the same for t

President Bush is yet to fill the vacancies created by his choice of Transportation SecretarySamuel

When Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari visits Camp David this weekend, he will urge Presid

A dispute between Hungary and Czechoslovakia over an ill-fated joint hydroelectric dam project on th

MORE THAN EVER, environmental concerns are driving economic and political agendas. Three development

MARK TWAIN ONCE SAID that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting. He was referring to the

A commission on ocean shipping appointed by President Bush is weighing recommendations to Congress t

WHEN THE SOVIET UNION officially died on Sunday - replaced by a new commonwealth of republics - the

NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS. Japan's trade surplus continues to grow, despite a stronger y

Way back in the presidential campaign so long, long ago, George Bush delighted partisan audiences wh

Merchants in this enterprising city are learning how perilous it can be to act as middleman between

After five years of grueling debate with America's farm trade competitors, it is time for U.S. trade

Controversies, mishaps, outright fraud - just about anything that could have happened in the past ye

Media coverage of the recent disclosure that basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson has Acquired Imm

America can rest easy. George Bush is here. The president promised the nation a "new action program"

SHIPPING LINES TAKE NOTE: Building a warehouse on the waterfront may subject you to a Pandora's box

IT MAY LOOK CHEERFUL in eastern Germany as Christmas approaches, but economic distress is not far fr

Never underestimate the greed of a protected industry. The Crafted with Pride in U.S.A. Council Inc.

ECONOMISTS ARE HAVING A FIELD DAY. They look at exactly the same data on national employment, indust

Everybody's talking, all the time, in a variety of ways. Peace talks, talk radio, endless congressio

IT'S NO SECRET THAT LAWYERS, like almost everyone else, are feeling the pinch of a slow economy. But

The "German Question" will be lurking in the minds of European Community leaders today as they steel

With the United States on the verge of recognizing the newly independent but still unarticled Ukrain