Commentary

Foreign Inspections Are a Trade BarrierYour Aug. 19 editorial on the pre-shipment inspection

Strengthening our national defense globally and our competitive standing internationally should be t

THE RESULTS of last Sunday's election in Argentina pose a major challenge for that country's 4-year-

ALL TOO OFTEN, economics plays handmaiden to other concerns when it comes to foreign affairs. There

I called a friend last weekend for tennis and spoke with his telephone answering machine. I think su

Taiwanese Concern In US Trade StressedIn your editorial of Aug. 21, 1987 related to your "Sp

Japan's plucky prime minister, whose five years in office come to an end on the 30th of next month,

The economy has rounded the corner into the homestretch of 1987 in remarkably good shape. The major

When it comes to highway safety, it is striking how readily people recommend solutions to problems o

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S new executive order requiring federal agencies to evaluate the impact of their po

THE VISIT OF EAST GERMAN LEADER Erich Honecker to West Germany marks a milestone in the tense histor

The mere mention of new technology is usually enough to raise the hackles of Britain's trades unions

CONGRESSMEN SPEND a lot of time griping about other nations' non-tariffbarriers to trade. Th

Recent demonstrations in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia provided a new reminder to Soviet leader Mikh

On June 11, 1987, the nation's air traffic controllers voted 2-1 to form the National Air Traffic C

THE COST OF MOVING cargo through a seaport is based on many factors, only one of which is longshore

There was no television 160 years ago when Samuel F.B. Morse founded The Journal of Commerce. No rad

WHEN THE NOMINATION of C. William Verity Jr. as secretary of commerce comes before the Senate Commer

IT'S HARD TO GO FAR in any major city without running into the homeless. Train stations and bus term

Time to Point Finger At CanadaI noted in your Aug. 12 issue some comments made by Leonard H.

The participation of the Norwegian firm Kongsberg Trade - a division of Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk - in

The name of Rep. Dante Fascell, D-Fla., was misspelled in a letter published in Tuesday's edition of

A recent Journal of Commerce editorial ("Who Needs a Fleet?", Aug. 17) notes the disinterest of the

Americas' two biggest car companies and the United Auto Workers Union have begun the most critical l

THE STEEL INDUSTRY HAS EXTRACTED a lot from the U.S. taxpayer, all in the name of saving basic indus

Although I am not much of a chess player, I am an expert at making a particular move. It inv

Alan Greenspan has hardly had time to find his way to the tennis courts at the Federal Reserve Board

No phase of the Uruguay Round trade negotiations in Geneva is likely to be trickier, or more frustra

THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S much-debated decision not to build the Lavi fighter plane is a victory for

An U.S. ship, filled with U.S. grain, sails to the port of a U.S. trading partner. One might expect

OVERTHROWING A DICTATORSHIP is one thing. Establishing a democracy is altogether another.As the Phil

The loss of reinvestment tax deferral for U.S.-owned shipping, which resultedfrom some last

WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE William Seward bought Alaska from Czar Alexander II in 1867 for two cents an

TO HEAR THE BIG defense contractors tell it, they don't expect anything when they hire retired gener

'Who Needs a Fleet?' Took Brave StandI would like to congratulate The Journal of Commerce on

Not content with eating Big Macs, watching Dynasty and following U.S. football, Britain seems intent

At the turn of this century, China had a problem. Although it recognized the superiority of Western

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION is still 15 months away, but the maritime unions have begun writing checks

When the Senate returns from its summer recess, one of the first bills it will consider will be cata

AIDS, THE 20th CENTURY counterpart to ancient leprosy and the bubonic plague, is casting a deadly sh