Commentary

The major steel producers are seeking an extension of the voluntary quotas on steel imports, which a

TAIWANESE PRESIDENT Chiang Ching-kuo, who died Wednesday at the age of 77, proved to be an unexpecte

Twenty years ago an enterprising French magazine editor wrote a best selling book about internationa

IF RIP VAN WINKLE were to awaken in 1988, he'd hardly recognize the railroad industry. Rail's once-s

Your Dec. 23 editorial addresses an issue of grave concern to the Shipbuilders Council of America, t

The last week or so may have been the Democratic candidates' best in the 1988 presidential campaign

A NASTY DOGFIGHT is about to begin over what may be the most complex trade dispute of the decade. Th

Too much is being made of the federal budget deficit. It's not that the deficit is desirable

For the past 30 years U.S. and other foreign governments have pressed the Japanese to fully open the

Well, we've done it. Despite all our good intentions, we have foolishly tiptoed into 1988. Not only

Pope-Gorbachev Comparison BlastedAs a Roman Catholic, I feel compelled to ask that you publi

Britain is a land of opportunity for fast-food restaurants, television suppliers, wine and coffee pr

The U.S. trade deficit has come to be viewed as the problem that will not go away. In 1986 the defic

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER crashing into the Antarctic ice cap, a C-130 Hercules cargo plane has taken to

ITS UNIQUE PLACE in the international economy has allowed the United States to move almost painlessl

AS EVERYONE LEARNED in high school civics class, congressional conference committees take bills appr

As Americans continue to wring their hands over budget and trade deficits, they have neglected anoth

SOVIET LEADER Mikhail Gorbachev's plans for restructuring the Russian economy could lead to serious

Expect people of Chinese origin to be very aggressive - and successful - in business in 1988. And if

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Dec. 31 had a chance to vote on a fundamental issue: Is the truck

Every generation looks back with nostalgia, even romanticism, to some particular earlier decade, usu

Clearing the Air On S. African MiningFrom this distance, we in the South African mining indu

WHEN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS took ill on Oct. 19, London's Economist hastily constructed a barometer t

EVER SINCE WALL STREET'S stock markets collapsed on Oct. 19 and 20, economists have been busy churni

The dramatic drop of the dollar against other major Western currencies has sparked many pronouncemen

JAPAN HAS HARVESTED much well-deserved criticism for its mercantilist attitude toward trade, its des

This city becomes something of a ghost town between congressional sessions. The lawmakers and most o

IN SECRET MEETINGS over the past year, bank regulators from the leading industrial nations have craf

Eight years after Ronald Reagan first proposed a North American free trade area in his presidential

As every capitalist knows, competition from hungry up-and-comers often putspressure on large

TAIWAN'S REGULATIONS governing foreign shipping lines have long been a sore point for U.S. ocean car

The U.S. Treasury and the Morgan Bank came galloping through the pass just before the New Year, pin

Pope John Paul II recently completed a 17,000-mile public relations extravaganza across the United S

IN THE WAKE of the well-publicized security breach created through export violations by Japan's Tosh

There's a mean, arbitrary, high-handed country out there. Let's call it X. It ignores a find

DEEP IN THE 8-INCH STACK of pages comprising the omnibus appropriations bill, one of the two budget

The European Community's drive to establish a single unified marketplace for the 12 member states to

Earlier this year, the press was full of stories about the imminent accession of China to the Gener

MacBride Principles Needed in N. IrelandYour London correspondent Edwin Unsworth could hardl

THE AUTO INDUSTRY, thank you, has been doing much better than might have been expected. Black Monday