Commentary

Democracy, of all things, may be getting in the way of the Uruguay Round, a panel of economic expert

A PENSION IS NOT A PROMISE to take lightly. A federal district court judge reaffirmed that important

SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV will open a Soviet trade exhibit in New York today to show his count

Bigger, dumber transactions will surely be done in months or years to come. But for raw greed, hubri

ARTICLE ON ROMANIA WAS JUST PROPAGANDAIt was an unpleasant surprise to read in your paper th

Little progress will be made at this week's midterm review of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trad

One of the lessons many of us have learned from last July's Piper Alpha oil rig disaster in the Nort

IN ONE MORE SIGN of Latin America's discontent with economic stagnation and foreign debt, Venezuelan

ONE OF THE DECADE'S MORE SORDID labor disputes has come to a positive end. After years of ignoring c

About 10 years back, when Singapore thought it might replace Hong Kong as the trade and tourist mecc

PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY, of a sort, seems to be coming to the Soviet Union. On Thursday, the Supreme

Americans like the idea of space-age medicine, and they believe that, for the most part, human life

GEORGE BUSH TALKED TO ALAN GREENSPAN by phone the day after the Federal Reserve chairman's tough tes

CAMPEAU, BRIDGESTONE, HOECHST, NESTLE. Foreign takeovers of U.S. companies have become almost a dail

Touted as the keystone for a Latin American common market, the treaty of economic cooperation and in

NADER WENT TOO FAR IN ATTACK ON INSURERSYour Nov. 15 coverage of California's Proposition 10

This past June, four engineers from leading American manufacturing companies sat around a circular t

LAST MONTH, CANADIAN VOTERS said they want freer trade with the United States. Next week, President

SPEED KILLS. THAT'S ESPECIALLY TRUE when an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer is involved. The Department

ALLOWING TRADE TO BE THE HANDMAIDEN of foreign policy cost President Reagan dearly. Downplaying trad

Sovietologists have been so preoccupied with recent Politburo personnel changes that they have faile

CENSUS BUREAU'S INTEGRITY DEFENDEDI waited all this time (hoping to cool down) before writin

Every now and then, a story comes along that deserves more attention than it gets from the better-kn

CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI, who takes office today as the president of Mexico, faces challenges even

The network television news has become the favorite punching bag of those who lose out in the court

Hopefully George Bush was able to enjoy his Thanksgiving holiday at Kennebunkport, Maine. Come the t

MONDAY'S RISE IN THE PRIME RATE to 10.5 percent, the highest rate in three- and-one-half years, shou

Day after day over the past two months, millions of Japanese have been patiently keeping up with the

Britain's ports feel badly let down by the politicians. While port managers say they are doi

INTEREST ON DEBT IS DEDUCTIBLE from corporate income tax. Dividends on equity are not. That differen

POINTS ON TRADE BAR DESERVE EXPANSIONI am glad to be called a crocodile and even often wrong

Nearly two years after the European Community adopted a common maritime policy, it is still not clea

THE GRAPEVINE SAYS Farrell Lines Inc.'s president, Richard Parks, has the inside track to be maritim

The movement toward closer integration of the European Community in 1992 is a source of constant hea

REFORM OF THE SYSTEM for procuring ocean transportation of military cargoes may be one of those issu

From his perch beneath the cedars on the University of British Columbia's sprawling campus, James Br

Life is changing in China, but not always for the better. When I visited China last month, I

The Bush administration must feel blessed. Never - at least in recent memory - has an incoming admin

THE SWEEPING VICTORY of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party in Monday's parliamentary election s

FOREIGN COMPANIES ARE FLOCKING to the United States - where their subsidiaries earn substantially le