Commentary

''No one can walk backwards into the future," an American writer once observed. Hopefully the United

U.S. NEGOTIATORS expect this month's bilateral aviation talks with Japan to produce only a limited l

There is a natural antithesis between traders, those involved in commerce between people and nations

MANUFACTURING HAS BEEN the bright spot in America's productivity picture: While the service sector's

The roughly 300 pieces of legislation needed to pave the way for a single market within the European

AFTER 20 MONTHS OF WAITING for the courts to rule on the future of the short- line railroad industry

TO THE LAYMAN, foreign aid sounds like something to help developing countries feed, house and educat

You might say that Robert Mosbacher got off to an excessively fast start. A newcomer to Washington,

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND. BAT Industries PLC, the British conglomerate, is about to illustrate

Coming off a subdued Fourth of July, in which the once fiercely independent Americano was reduced to

For the first time in memory, big wheels in Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PR

MOVING FORWARD IN REVERSE GEARIn an effort to formulate a more aggressive U.S. trade policy,

Many of the foot-tall American flags that someone set out on all the front lawns in our neighborhood

Due to a typographical error, an article by Richard E. Feinberg on this page July 11 misstated the a

IN REACTION TO THREE RECENT oil spills, the House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee wants

A NEW ISSUE has crept onto the agenda for this weekend's economic summit in Paris. For the first tim

During the 1960s, as a student of China, I was to examine the social and psychological origins of ma

NEGOTIATORS FOR the International Longshoremen's Association and their employers probably made the r

The federal budget, virtually dormant as a serious political issue since George Bush took office in

Only a few years ago, it generally was assumed that with most of Japan's tariff and non-tariff trade

It is arguable that the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Reform Act of 1974, passed by the Congr

PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? Speaking idiomatic French is no easy task. But Mikhail Gorbachev's French acce

HOPPER CARS AND THE USDAI read The Journal of Commerce's June 26 article regarding the U.S.

Angry at the insistence of government officials that they write down Third World debt, bankers are d

THE SUMMIT IN PARIS at the end of this week will concentrate on at least five key issues: *

"Mad, mad, mad!" declaimed the headlines, as France put the last touches on preparations for celebra

DON'T BE SURPRISED to see some new versions of current legislative proposalsfrom the House M

THE LOSS OF AN ELECTION in the state of Baja California Norte represents a victory of sorts for Mexi

THE LIABILITY CRISIS IS OVER, but somebody forgot to tell Congress. In their eagerness to do somethi

The decade of the 1990s could well be one of the most prosperous 10 years of economic growth of the

The integration of Western European markets by the end of 1992 presents American companies with an u

Our editorial "P* and All That," in the July 6 edition of The Journal of Commerce, inadvertently rev

The U.S. Conference of Mayors says it is "a national municipal crisis." A 1988 survey of local gover

The Mexican government has been claiming that the first phase of its economic modernization process

OIL RIGS IN ANTARCTICA? That environmental nightmare is not just a theoretical possibility.

CLARIFICATION NEEDED ON URANIUM 'DEBT'Your editorial of June 28, "The Uranium Bailout," make

''THE STOCK MARKET WAS IRREGULAR last week," the New York Journal of Commerce reported in its editio

Maybe it's the heat. The Federal Swamp has been trapped in a 90-degree envelope for two weeks. It's

MANAGING THE NATION'S MONEY SUPPLY is an art. With a flurry of publicity, Federal Reserve Board Cha

A new kind of international gamesmanship has emerged on the Washington scene and is causing extensiv