Commentary

The recently signed transportation bill, touted by the Bush administration as manna for the starving

IN DEFENSE OF IMO TANKER STUDYYou recently published a report on an article by Sally M. Lent

The link between trade and environmental policies has become a hot issue on America's political agen

Citizens of Hong Kong, the ultimate free-trade territory, rarely have cause for protectionist sentim

The French philosopher La Rochefoucauld observed in his acerbic book ''Reflections" that self-intere

THE REAL FACTS ABOUT SHIP SAFETYYour Dec. 13 article, "Ships Meet Standards, Still Pose Fire

NO ONE SEEMS TO LIKE the proposed world trade agreement released in Geneva last week by Arthur Dunke

IRAN, KNOWN FOR MILITANT RHETORIC, is turning down the verbal volume. The new byword for Ira

After years of fruitless discussion on creating a common market, the dozen member nations of the Eng

FULL STORY ABOUT CANADA LIFECanada Life was portrayed in an incomplete manner in your July 1

The decision by British Prime Minister John Major to keep Britain out of the ''social charter" of th

LOOPHOLES AND LAPSES in the international codes on passenger vessel safety have allowed unsafe ships

Driving into this little town at dawn on a December morning, you see the traffic mainly coming at yo

ISOLATIONIST BLATHER is dominating the political landscape. From Patrick Buchanan's myopic "America

TAX IN HASTE, repent at leisure. Last summer, California imposed an 8.25 percent sales tax o

There will be fewer political games played with the chairmanship of the International Trade Commissi

Twenty years ago, Julia Child's "The French Chef" became the first national television program to be

This free trade stuff is getting downright silly. In the old days, free trade meant spurring competi

Alarmed at Japan's dwindling labor force, some business leaders and economists in Japan advocate hir

The presidentially appointed commission on ocean shipping reform, which completed another round of m

IGOR DMITROWSKY is in the catbird's seat. Mr. Dmitrowsky is the president of Baltia Airlines

AMERICAN INSOMNIACS WHO DREAM OF trading stocks in the middle of the night - when it's daylight over

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

Years ago a Scottish singer stumbled on a sure-fire money-maker, farewell tours of America. His firs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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