Commentary

PUNITIVE DAMAGES can be an effective tool for punishing corporate wrongdoers. They can also be an af

FDA NEEDS MORE PEOPLE TO DO ITS JOBWe have been following with some amusement your articles

Texas Instruments, the Dallas-based semiconductor and electronics company, won a preliminary victory

EVEN AS YUGOSLAVIA and the Soviet Union disintegrate, other long-parted nations are coming closer to

The U.S. laws against dumping foreign products in this country are both one of the oldest attempts t

The recent scandals involving the U.S. operations of Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce In

RARELY HAS A TRAGEDY prompted such quick action from Congress. On Aug. 27, few on Capitol Hill thoug

Political strategists in the Bush administration are running around frantically trying to jump-start

Leo Abruzzese, the chap who taps out most of this newspaper's editorials, did a beauty three weeks a

Any Western economic package for the former Soviet Union should include a means for promoting direct

The highly charged debate over the future of Britain's National Health Service could prove the downf

THE DOOR WAS OPENED THIS MONTH for world trade negotiators - finally - to end five years of complex

FORD PROTESTS SHIPPING COLUMNIt is with profound regret that I strenuously protest the ad ho

A carefully monitored High-Tech Bungle Index should be added to the various conventional measures of

America's publishers of personal computer software are among the country's most internationally comp

IT SEEMS FRANCE has its own version of Richard Gephardt. Like the Democratic representative from Mis

AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS of negotiations, an international agreement to end government shipbuilding

The American maritime industry is facing another wave of threats to the Jones Act and its restrictio

All the discussion and debate over the upcoming North American Free-Trade Agreement and its various

The following is an excerpt from an address by Robert L. Crandall, chairman and presidentof American

EUROPE'S PROTECTIONIST FARM POLICIES, which have knotted world trade talks, extend well beyond its b

THE SENATE VOTE ON WEDNESDAY WAS CLOSE, but President Bush's veto of a bill extending jobless benefi

The recent revelations about the Central Intelligence Agency prove only that the agency, itschampion

SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES is playing hardball in San Francisco. The rail company is threatening to susp

IT'S A WONDER FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP. can find time to deliver packages. The air express company spend

IMPORTER CRITICIZES SHORTCOMINGS AT FDAYour recent front page article "Forwarders Decry Insp

As U.S. and Mexican negotiators prepare to meet in Zacatecas on Oct. 26 to work out a free-trade agr

What Robert Ngu carries in his pocket is the reality of Northern California's Silicon Valley and a g

Later this fall, the Canadian Banknote Company in Ottawa will start to fulfill an unusual order. It

International traders will tell you that free trade agreements are only a ''second-best" method to b

Foreign trade is the wild card in the U.S. economic outlook. Even if auto sales and housing starts s

TIGHT BUDGETS and growing environmental concerns have led most states to impose tough new measures o

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY OFFICIALS sometimes have trouble keeping their eye on the ball. Disagreem

If coffee-producing nations get their way, a cup of takeout coffee may soon cost more than a gallon

JAPAN'S POLITICAL PROCESS, often mysterious to Americans, has produced a strong candidate for prime

Another chapter was written last week in the sorry saga of the Channel Tunnel, and once again Britai

THE JONES ACT: IT HASN'T WORKEDI read with interest your articles on the Jones Act: "Trade A

PRESSURE ON THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION to yield on extending unemployment benefits won't abate. Mr. Bus

The saga of the Superconducting Super Collider goes on, providing yet another case of how ravenous f

ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR JONES ACT SHALLOWIn reading Joe Farrell's op-ed defense of the cabota