Commentary

The decade of the 1990s will come to be known as the time when the one remaining superpower on the p

Imagine trying to get government approval to dredge a soybean export canal through a spectacular wet

The information technology industry scored back-to-back trade victories in recent months. First, nat

The rapid emergence of China as a potential world power, and expanding American interests in that co

The question ''Who should make America's liability law - courts or legislatures?'' is not academic.

As they did two months ago in Berlin, finance ministers of the world's seven richest countries made

AN UNFAIR MEDIA ATTACKON CUSTOMS' WEISERecent segments on the ''CBS Evening News'' and ''60

The so-called Year 2000 problem - widespread meltdown as computers with two-digit data fields can't

Next year is the International Year of the Ocean. Yet few in this country have even heard about the

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is in trouble, a victim of complacency and politics.

Europe has exposed its myriad national contradictions just as it enters the decisive phase of its po

They laughed 12 years ago - well, I laughed - when a firm of space morticians announced plans for fu

Earlier this month, a U.S. district court declared the Line Item Veto Act to be unconstitutional. Th

President Clinton's decision to impose economic sanctions on Myanmar, formerly Burma, marks the firs

Whether the cancer overruns his body first or the insurgents take over the capital, it is clear that

Recognizing that financial backing for inefficient state-owned companies is imposing serious burdens

The discovery of a trove of 87-year-old 6th-grade book reports is being treated as a fun story, a go

After three years, the tide seems to be shifting in favor of an African trade and investment bill -

Given the public discussion, it is tempting to think of China's campaign to join the World Trade Org

''Fast track'' is in trouble.To some extent, this reflects Congress' traditional reluctance

Like the mythic Greek warrior Achilles, who was invincible except for his heel, many companies commi

A specialized cadre of trade lawyers is locked in an almost theological debate: whether the governme

Like their counterparts throughout the Americas, Mexico's union leaders have watched their ranks shr

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 7 leading industrial democracies wi

As budget pressures and ''compassion fatigue'' erode support for foreign aid among traditional donor

For more than a decade, U.S. trade officials have preached a simple sermon to China: World trade is

A commercial on TV the other night showed us a young, middle-class couple in the throes of a modern

Suddenly the most boring British general election campaign in history is becoming interesting.

Today's summit meeting between President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is bi

Private investment into the emerging economies grew at a record pace last year, reaching about $250

A recent editorial in The Journal of Commerce suggests that a preliminary ruling in the World Trade

President Clinton recently offered to make a written pledge to include the nuclear option in the ret

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's policy is proof that when a central bank gradually achieve

Five years after the celebrated 1992 ''Earth Summit'' in Rio, heads of state are preparing for a fol

There are disturbing signs the European Union is preparing to abuse its trust-busting authority to i

Kremlin officials meet the International Monetary Fund here this week to try to unblock disbursement

The federal government has a hard time rationalizing the different policies of different agencies, e

The Chemical Weapons Convention - an international treaty that outlaws the production, acquisition,

Shareholders at U.S. liner carrier American President Lines have had a wild ride the past few weeks.

Economic growth is bringing greater riches to countries around the globe, but too often the benefits