Commentary

Israel's new prime minister, Ehud Barak, has moved quickly to deal with major issues facing his coun

The Journal of Commerce's Aug. 4 editorial, ''Basic China issue'' (Page 5) correctly surmises that s

New York state finally adopted its annual budget this week. It was the 15th year in a row the state

On July 29, American consumers and hapless European exporters were punished because the European Uni

Despite the experience with markets, considerable confusion remains over the nature of the relations

Fast-track trade negotiating authority, which obligates the Congress to vote up or down on trade agr

There aren't too many people around who know the trans-Pacific container shipping trades better than

American apparel importers are angry about a sweeping Customs ban and the obscure but powerful agenc

The United States has won several high-profile cases at the World Trade Organization, but it's about

In an attempt to prepare aggressively for a cataclysmic systems failure, the Customs Service recentl

Picture giant pockets of water that suffocate marine life. Shoreline forests uprooted for resort hot

Nothing could be more ominous than the Human Development Report recently issued by the U.N. Developm

When I first heard last week about the Chinese government destroying a religious group's books, I fe

You just can't keep a good student down - or so a British school found.Prestwich School in M

Before congressional Republican leaders break their arms patting their own backs over a $792 billion

I was quite taken aback by the suggestion put forward by European Editor Aviva Freudmann in the Euro

The announcement this industry has long been wondering about and waiting for has finally come.

he international business sector has been focusing with increasing intensity on the major issue of C

Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui's statement that relations with China should be conducted as ''nati

First there was 8088 and 8086, then 286, 386 and 486 and SX and DX.Now there's Pentium, Pent

You have to pay close attention to all the details, major and minor. Plan for the expected and the u

America is in danger of being polled to pointlessness. From political polls to market research on al

Any way you look at it, the lines that used to separate transportation companies and their services

Has Tony Blair found the politician's Holy Grail? The British prime minister seems to do no wrong. A

Th British government has just taken a step that Washington would do well to heed: It announced a pl

Even as 2 million people were recently forced from their homes along India's overflowing Ganges Rive

It is now more than three years since the Maritime Law Association adopted its proposal for revision

In an era when public officials' lives are not noted for austerity, especially among those who trave

So it finally happened. After all the months of rumor and speculation, the marriage of convenience b

The U.S. Army wanted them, needed them: replacement parts for its construction gear in Kosovo. Cater

We are writing on behalf of the sugar industries listed below regarding the article titled ''Anatomy

If you are driving through arid, hellishly hot South Texas, you have to watch the brush carefully to

Membership rolls for the Job Search Focus Group in Cincinnati contain enough acronyms to fill out th

The tentative contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Marit

Several dozen families unexpectedly stand to gain something in the wake of the untimely death two we

The Clinton administration put new rules into effect this week that will exempt the commercial sale

Carlos Rodriguez takes Edward M. Emmett, National Industrial Transportation League president, to tas

There's no possible way to condone what happened at Newark International Airport last week, when an

Alan Greenspan's term as chairman of the Federal Reserve will expire next June, and already politica

A little-noticed event of significance happened recently: The International Tribunal for the Law of