Commentary

Since World War II, toll roads have become far more common overseas than they are in the United Stat

About a year ago, S. Linn Williams, then the Bush administration's chief steel trade negotiator, iss

AS COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY gallops ahead, some users are in danger of being left behind. Today's

U.S. TRADE NEGOTIATORS have spent more than a decade trying to limit Europe's huge government subsid

The Portuguese territory of Macao, just 40 miles across the Pearl River from Hong Kong and 80 miles

IN JAPAN, LAND OF CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, the products of U.S.-based Apple Computer have acquired a ce

Preliminary data indicate that total bank reserves - the raw material for the money supply - rose at

The new surface transportation law approved by Congress last year gives states the opportunity to dr

The European Commission has a case of the Single Market blues. The European Community's exec

To a chorus of denunciations from the chieftains of the research establishment, the scientific pork

FMC COMMISSIONER QUARTEL SHOULD GOI agree with the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department's call

GIVE GEORGE BUSH CREDIT. His January trade mission to Japan, intended mainly to help ailing U.S. aut

PROTECTING WILDLIFE has moved from the genteel realm of wealthy patrons and educational foundations

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION restored its environmental credibility last week by acknowledging the danger

IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH, you can always find a loophole. Vietnam Airlines has found a way to

The Export-Import Bank must soon ask Congress to renew its charter, or basic operating authority, an

Too much of the debate in this country over trade issues consists of finger- pointing. Not w

This city's traffic jams have become legendary. Watching vehicles crawl at 4 miles an hour has becom

LIFE IS ABOUT TO GET TOUGHER for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who has held on to power despite 18 mo

"For you," the radio said, "the war is over." It was March 31, 1991. The Navy broadcasting s

Who will stand up for the status quo? It's hard to find anyone here who claims it. Somewhere, deep i

EXPLAINING HARBOR MAINTENANCE FEESThere are a number statements in your well-written article

THE ECONOMY IS STILL IN THE DOLDRUMS and everyone, especially economists, has a different idea of ho

CARMAKERS: DON'T BLAME HEALTH COSTSChrysler Corp. executive Walter Maher's assertion before

United States Attorney General William Barr recently announced his intention to have the Department

THE DOUBLE HULL OIL TANKER DEBATE likely will overshadow all other events at the IMO meeting on mari

NOTHING IS BETTER than a double-hulled tanker for preventing oil spills. That was the conclusion of

It probably was bound to happen, but the combination of election-year politics and the nation's econ

As the European Community enters its year of metamorphosis into a single market, it faces challenges

Growth, or the lack of it, will surely dominate the election campaign this fall. Ironically,

The Murakami family, typical of Japan's middle class, had scrimped and saved for years to pay for th

EQUIPMENT AND PERSONNEL problems are nothing new for the nation's air traffic control system. Critic

Norman Lamont, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, will make the most important speech of his pol

THE NATION IS MIRED IN RECESSION and corporate profits are down, but senior managers seem to be hold

THE SWEET FACTS ABOUT SUGARIn your editorial "Debunking Protection" (Feb. 12, Page 8A), you

All of the name-calling of late between the United States and Japan is enough to revive memories of

NCITD AND CUSTOMS SETTLE ON DRAWBACKSome of your recent articles on proposed duty drawback l

CAPITALIST SPECULATORS, the scourge of socialist countries, are back in China. Chinese autho

AS THE SMOKE CLEARS from last week's one-day work stoppage by West Coast longshoremen, the question

Will new Transportation Secretary Andrew Card tell a presidential review panel that gave up hope of