Commentary

PRESIDENT CLINTON struck the right chord when he was asked Tuesday evening how the government should

Nafta we have. Maybe someday there will be an Afta, even a Safta. And how about a Tafta, too?

CUSTOMS: PROGRESS WITH AUTOMATIONI was distressed to read Eric Hirschhorn's March 28

THE WORLD'S major nations, fresh from a $50 billion rescue package for Mexico, are looking for ways

Brazil's president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, is in Washington this week fresh from his first 100 d

THE PARADE of U.S. officials traveling to India continued this week with a visit by Treasury Secreta

America is about to pass a dubious milestone. In the next few months, federal, state and local gover

She leaned toward me and lowered her voice in a conspiratorial tone. The picture of elegance, my 70-

AMTRAK DESERVES MORE SUPPORTYour March 30 editorial, "Amtrak's Future" (Page 10A), c

REPUBLICANS hunting for regulatory horror stories need look no further than the Commerce Department,

This past winter, all eyes were on the United States and China as they traded threats of trade retal

Jacques Chirac, who has been mayor of Paris for 18 years, once said, "What we have done for Paris wi

FIDEL CASTRO knows how to get Bill Clinton's attention. Faced with a congressional plan to tighten t

Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's relatively transparent and resounding victory in last Sunday's

The dollar continued its death-defying plunge against the Japanese and German currencies last week w

UPS TALKS MEXICO'S LAST HOPE UPS officials are expected to meet today with the Mexican gover

POLITICIANS WAX NOSTALGIC about small companies as engines of job growth and keepers of the entrepre

BRAZIL'S NEW PRESIDENT, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, visits Washington next week to meet with Presiden

Since Republicans gained control of Congress, America has been focused on the ''Contract With Americ

Commercial disputes between nations are nothing new, but the high seas fishing feud between Canada a

It's been observed that the art of taxation isn't too dissimilar to plucking a goose: You seek the g

With showmanship reminiscent of car dealerships' TV ads for 72-hour ''sellathons," the House Republi

The Federal Reserve has been much in the news lately, charging around the foreign exchange landscape

RAILROADING TODAY is testament to the power of competition and market pricing. After nearly disappea

Mexico's first trade surplus in four years might seem to confirm one of the arguments against the No

IT WASN'T LONG AGO that hardly anyone could envision a U.S. dollar trading for less than 100Japanese

Who has done more to alleviate poverty, Fidel Castro or Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express?<

The European Union lost the fish war with Canada the minute the Canadian coast guard arrested the Sp

UNILATERAL SANCTIONS DO NOT WORKSince I am quoted in your April 4 article on Iranian

Last year, the Clinton administration asked Congress to provide new trade negotiating authority to r

INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT, like international trade, has taken off like a rocket in the last 25 years

RUSSIA desperately needs foreign investment, but you wouldn't know it from the tax treatment of fore

One of the enduring mysteries of our capitalism is the tendency of corporations and their philanthro

The United States and the European Union are likely to cooperate more closely on antitrustmatters bu

One thing should be said about the famously angry American middle class. This may or may not be poli

The past few months have been fascinating and challenging ones for anyone who pretends to understand

Big businesses fishing for changes in ocean shipping antitrust law have steered a clever course in t

FOR HALF A CENTURY beginning in 1940, the United States spent nearly $350 billion to build nuclear w

SEN. RICHARD LUGAR isn't considered a leading candidate for the 1996 Republican presidential nominat

PROTECT US PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CUBAYour March 29 editorial, "Wrongheaded on Cuba" (Pa