Commentary

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SAMUEL K. SKINNER made the right decision this week when he agreed to dela

Congress has a little-noticed but highly demanding task before it this session: updating century-ol

DISCOUNT STORES SERVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE in our society, providing consumers who don't want or need

With the Feb. 5 release of the Treasury Department's proposal, banking reform will be a high priorit

Despite hopes to the contrary, de-bilitating overcapacity in the world's container shipping trades a

MEXICO'S PRESIDENT, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, has been on the road to drum up support for a North A

SHIP PACT UNDERMINES COMPETITIVENESSOn March 27 you ran two portentious front page stories -

MOST OF THE NATION'S RAILROADS could be shut down by a strike next Wednesday, but no one is likely t

Carlos Moore, executive vice president of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, is the autho

The U.S. economy fell at a rate of over 4 percent during the first quarter, more than double its dec

JAPAN IS NOT AMERICA'S economic enemy. Nearly a dozen trade agreements signed by the two countries i

CHINA FELL FROM GRACE with the world after the Tiananmen incident in the spring of 1989. But Chinese

During its 70-year history, the People's Republic of Mongolia has been dominated by its neighbor to

NO FAST-TRACK, NO FREE TRADEI disagree with conclusions of "U.S., Mexico Face Social Losses"

It doesn't sound terribly dangerous. In fact, it sounds downright dull. But it has touched off riots

IF IT'S BROKEN, FIX IT. If it can't be fixed, replace it with something new. Shipping lines particip

A hidden policy bomb was plant-ed in Congress on March 1, and lawmakers apparently have no idea of i

EUROPEAN ELECTRONICS companies are not alone in turning to government to help solve their competitiv

Many Americans praise Japan's educational system but few realize that the excellence ends with high

THANKS TO SOUND policy decisions and a good public relations campaign, the European Community has co

THE STAGE MAY BE SET SOON for a new International Trade Commission chairman. Don Newquist, a

Selling trade liberalization on Capitol Hill has never been easy. Now the administration finds itsel

JAPANESE ELECTRONICS manufacturers feel they are damned if they do and damned if they don't - or rat

The Supreme Court last week issued an important ruling that limits the opportunities for workers emp

It's time to do that little exercise where we look at our home planet from outer space and see what

THE UNMISTAKABLE STAMP of government showed itself again this week when the Coast Guard issued volun

In the "best of all possible worlds," a free trade agreement with Mexico would be easy to negotiate

Less than six months ago, East Germans were looking forward to a quick ''economic miracle." Today th

PRICES FOR MANY consumer goods in the Soviet Union doubled and tripled Tuesday, part of an economic

BUILDING CARS THAT are more fuel-efficient usually means making them smaller, but smaller cars don't

Despite much official U.S. rhetoric, American policy by and large has blinked at Chinese human right

GET ALL THE FACTS ON US-MEXICO PACTWesley Smith's article, "Debunking Free Trade's Critics"

Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's designs on the rest of Yugoslavia may not be so apparent to the

The United States earned dubious distinction as the world's largest debtor during the Reagan adminis

IT WAS NO SURPRISE that Japan took most of the heat last week when the Bush administration released

JUST AS MIKHAIL GORBACHEV struggles to keep the Soviet Union together, the Kremlin is facing a 58 bi

The Persian Gulf war is over and U.S.-Japan relations have returned to normal - that is, if you con

FORTY-TWO YEARS ago this Wednesday, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to counter the

The role of the Japanese in the world order has been analyzed from the economic, political, strategi

CANADA IS THE United States' largest trading partner, but business ties between the two often are le