Commentary

''No one can walk backwards into the future," an American writer once observed. Hopefully the United

Heaven is where the policemen are British, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian and everythi

There is a natural antithesis between traders, those involved in commerce between people and nations

U.S. NEGOTIATORS expect this month's bilateral aviation talks with Japan to produce only a limited l

MANUFACTURING HAS BEEN the bright spot in America's productivity picture: While the service sector's

AFTER 20 MONTHS OF WAITING for the courts to rule on the future of the short- line railroad industry

The roughly 300 pieces of legislation needed to pave the way for a single market within the European

TO THE LAYMAN, foreign aid sounds like something to help developing countries feed, house and educat

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND. BAT Industries PLC, the British conglomerate, is about to illustrate

You might say that Robert Mosbacher got off to an excessively fast start. A newcomer to Washington,

For the first time in memory, big wheels in Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PR

Coming off a subdued Fourth of July, in which the once fiercely independent Americano was reduced to

IN REACTION TO THREE RECENT oil spills, the House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee wants

A NEW ISSUE has crept onto the agenda for this weekend's economic summit in Paris. For the first tim

Many of the foot-tall American flags that someone set out on all the front lawns in our neighborhood

MOVING FORWARD IN REVERSE GEARIn an effort to formulate a more aggressive U.S. trade policy,

Due to a typographical error, an article by Richard E. Feinberg on this page July 11 misstated the a

During the 1960s, as a student of China, I was to examine the social and psychological origins of ma

The federal budget, virtually dormant as a serious political issue since George Bush took office in

NEGOTIATORS FOR the International Longshoremen's Association and their employers probably made the r

It is arguable that the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Reform Act of 1974, passed by the Congr

Only a few years ago, it generally was assumed that with most of Japan's tariff and non-tariff trade

HOPPER CARS AND THE USDAI read The Journal of Commerce's June 26 article regarding the U.S.

PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? Speaking idiomatic French is no easy task. But Mikhail Gorbachev's French acce

Angry at the insistence of government officials that they write down Third World debt, bankers are d

"Mad, mad, mad!" declaimed the headlines, as France put the last touches on preparations for celebra

THE SUMMIT IN PARIS at the end of this week will concentrate on at least five key issues: *

THE LOSS OF AN ELECTION in the state of Baja California Norte represents a victory of sorts for Mexi

DON'T BE SURPRISED to see some new versions of current legislative proposalsfrom the House M

THE LIABILITY CRISIS IS OVER, but somebody forgot to tell Congress. In their eagerness to do somethi

Our editorial "P* and All That," in the July 6 edition of The Journal of Commerce, inadvertently rev

The integration of Western European markets by the end of 1992 presents American companies with an u

The decade of the 1990s could well be one of the most prosperous 10 years of economic growth of the

The U.S. Conference of Mayors says it is "a national municipal crisis." A 1988 survey of local gover

The Mexican government has been claiming that the first phase of its economic modernization process

OIL RIGS IN ANTARCTICA? That environmental nightmare is not just a theoretical possibility.

''THE STOCK MARKET WAS IRREGULAR last week," the New York Journal of Commerce reported in its editio

CLARIFICATION NEEDED ON URANIUM 'DEBT'Your editorial of June 28, "The Uranium Bailout," make

It is the opening game of the 1956 World Series. I am throwing easily in the Brooklyn Dodger bullpen

AS HEAD OF THE Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Alf