Commentary

Mexican officials agreed in Paris on Wednesday to eliminate tariffs beginning Aug. 1 on an estimate

The threatened end of a tax break that helps U.S. companies reduce taxes on their foreign operations

Today, Israel's official 50th anniversary, finds American and Israeli relations at a crossroads. Bot

As Congress debates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's merits this week, the organization must

The U.S. Trade Representative recently released its 1998 National Trade Estimates report outlining f

Boys at play sometimes divide sports teams between the ''shirts'' and the ''skins.''Those in

East Asia's financial meltdown has policy-makers scrambling for reasons, and solutions. What was rec

Each warm evening this spring, Jordan Street has witnessed the elaborate mating rituals of the well-

Passenger ships today have a boatload full of technology that makes it unlikely they will ever star

President Clinton warned a group of evangelical Christian leaders Monday that the steady rise in U.S

The states of California and Texas - which enroll a fifth of the nation's students - are in the proc

World Wildlife Fund President Kathryn Fuller argued in this newspaper (''Green Trade Wanted'' April

The United States and Japan face immediate challenges with major implications for the global economy

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights dealt the United States a stinging diplomatic rebuff last week b

Driven by Asia's financial crisis, our trade deficit will expand significantly this year, perhaps by

Indonesia has taken another step to turn its beleaguered economy around by announcing changes to its

President Clinton is critical of those in Congress in favor of scrapping the federal income tax and

The first impression of many visitors to Britain is the stretch of badly clogged highway between air

Some time this year, Congress will take up the treaty on climate change negotiated in Kyoto in late

The world watched in horror recently as nearly 100 ethnic Albanians, many of them civilians, were ki

The recent findings of a World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel involving a U.S. law on s

The European Union is poised to launch a single currency, but it hasn't yet forged a proper single m

Gilbert F. Amelio is my hero.During his 17-month tenure as head of Apple Computer Inc., the

The Kyoto treaty to reduce global warming faces stiff opposition in the U.S. Senate, fueled by labor

It was an unusual challenge and one fraught with conflict: Draw a blueprint for building new citizen

After years of standing on the shore, executives of Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico's 60-year-old oil mo

Will he or won't he? The World Trade Organization, for- merly the General Agreement on Tariffs an

POLAND OIL SECTOR OPENSTO FOREIGN INVESTMENTWARSAW - Poland's Cabinet Economic Commi

Russia's wily President Boris Yeltsin showed anew his ability to gain and hold power through coups,

For years, experts looked upon East Asia as a model for Latin America's economic problems - and righ

The Reagan-era philosophy included a strictly interpreted Constitution and a market-driven society p

The blessings of the global food market are many: summer squash in winter and winter squash in summe

China's announced ban on the door-to-door sales strategies used by Amway, Mary Kay and Avon is ridic

If there were a single test of the effectiveness of the World Bank since James Wolfensohn became pre

The azaleas are in bloom in South Korea as residents enjoy the warm spring sunshine. With the terms

When the second most powerful official in American government writes a book, it is wise to read it.

The Summit of the Americas last weekend in Santiago, Chile, marks the start of seven years of free-t

The financial services industry is riding a wave of excitement over the announced mergers of Citicor

When Russian President Boris Yeltsin's candidate for prime minister, Sergei Kirienko, first met U.S.

Not much more than 12 months ago, the hype over $10 cigars was thicker than smoke in a political bac