Commentary

Officials from the United States and the 16 other nations that comprise Cocom - the Coordinating Com

The success of an undertaking as ambitious as the 1992 project to create a single European market is

Hardly anyone noticed, but President Bush called for a radical transformation of American society i

THE MOMENTUM TOWARD ONE GERMANY well may be unstoppable. But West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's pr

NELSON MANDELA, released Sunday after nearly three decades as one of the world's best-known politica

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF wetlands has been known for decades, but it was only last November

Americans have rather badly misgauged the meaning of events in Eastern Europe. What has been greeted

Speaking to the Guild of Business Travel Agents here late last month, Cecil Parkinson, Britain's tra

THAT STYLISH ITALIAN SUIT, as many an American traveler has learned, probably costs more in Milan th

DOUBLE BOTTOMS CAN BE HAZARDOUSThe Journal of Commerce's editorial of Jan. 9 ("Double Bottom

THE COLD WAR THAW has yet to make it to East Asia. While the two Germanys are dismantling their bor

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is demonstrating renewed interest in rooting out corruption in the Internati

By far the least developed element on the way to an economic and monetary union is the institutional

''The primary economic goal of my administration," President Bush told the nation in his annual eco

What can shippers, truckers and railroads expect from Edward J. Philbin, the new Interstate Commerce

AT THE OUTSET OF 1989, The Journal of Commerce laid out 12 of the major issues we expected our reade

For many years I did not get involved in any Soviet trade, believing the enormity of the country and

World trade advances and retreats in much the same manner as the business cycle. There have

TRANSPORTATION POLICY ISN'T A WASTE OF TIMEYour Feb. 1 editorial, "Wasting Time," which was

THERE'S NOT MUCH "TRANSPORTATION" in federal transportation policy. The Department of Transportation

The proposal that the U.S. Customs Service charge importers a fee to consider classification ruling

F.W. DE KLERK has awakened South Africans from their desperation. The president's bold announcement

My experience obliges me to rebut the proposal that the U.S. Customs Service charge a fee for the is

Throughout the world, from Eastern Europe to East Asia, from Chile to China, the concept of free tra

This past year has been a bad time for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. A full five years after

Corporate profits crashed in 1989. According to preliminary, unpublished estimates by the Commerce D

PRESIDENT BUSH'S DECISION to bar China from owning an aircraft parts manufacturer in Seattle is a po

FOR OVER A YEAR, the Treasury Department could find no need at all to increase the resources of the

SMILING BRAVELY, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Nicholas Brady, Treasury secretary

ELECTRICITY, AN ENERGY SOURCE Americans take for granted, increasingly is in short supply. The exces

Opposition is mounting to the recent takeover of Union des Transports Aeriens, France's largest priv

ACID RAIN STAND LACKS BASIS IN FACTI was shocked to read your editorial "Acid Rain Runaround

The conservative revolutionaries of the late 1970s and early 1980s had someworthwhile things

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS UNDER fire for not rushing to take advantage of trade opportunities in th

The Bush administration may be about to revise its customs user fee proposal - again. The Ge

BOLDNESS HASN'T EXACTLY been the strong suit of the Bush administration's first year. But the presid

As the 1990s unfold, the world's financial markets are on the threshold of a technology-driven revol

This is dedicated to reporters daily engaged in their own phone hells, editors who may have forgotte

The Jan. 26 editorial "Plowing Coca Under" incorrectly stated the total amount of U.S. drug enforcem

The best way to help ensure that America will have enough supplies of electricity to meet growing d