Commentary

The Agriculture Department is about to announce the U.S. sugar import quota for 1988 - an event cert

The 1980s have not been kind to the U.S. labor movement. Labor has been forced to fight, often unsuc

WHEN SOMEBODY OWES YOU $100, it's their worry, the saying goes. But when they owe you $1 million, it

Omission of a word in a letter by Lucius Gilman published on this page last Friday reversed the mean

THIS NEWSPAPER, like many others, frequently reports on the barriers faced by U.S. companies that wi

THE TREATY OVER intermediate-range nuclear forces that President Reagan and Soviet Communist Party G

The stock market decline has had the beneficial effect of focusing greater attention on the budget d

WHEN PRESIDENT REAGAN says there is no reason to expect a recession due to the stock market crash, h

Nuclear Plants Expensive to OperateThe Journal of Commerce's Nov. 10 editorial, "Nukes and P

Hundreds of bunches of flowers still spill across the sidewalk in front of King's Cross station in L

THE COLD FACTS of budget austerity notwithstanding, James Burnley, who took office as secretary of T

Do you remember Procrustes, one of the great villains of Greek legend? He was the robber of

HAITI'S MILITARY RULERS are nervous, and no wonder: Their utter failure to protect the safety of can

The Wall Street Journal (or Brand X, as we call it around here) last week published two articles th

U.S.-BASED MULTINATIONAL FIRMS have a new tax fight on their hands - a House Ways and Means Committe

SLIGHTLY MORE THAN A YEAR has passed since Congress, overriding President Reagan's veto, enacted mod

The maritime industry has actively pursued the goal of developing a new national maritime policy fo

Gasoline Marketing And CompetitionI read with interest your Nov. 9 editorial, "Retailers and

DUMPING IS ONE of the more controversial terms in the trade experts' lexicon. Technically, it means

There's no little irony in the fact that rags and waste paper are now the biggest exports shipped f

MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES AGO, Benjamin Franklin's original fire insurance company, The Philadelphia C

Throughout his seven years in office, President Ronald Reagan has repeatedly called for reductions i

IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG after the Oct. 19 stock market crash for the revisionist wisdom to emerge from a

As Mikhail Gorbachev prepares for an important summit meeting with President Reagan in Washington, i

Easily the most fascinating and humbling aspect of the news business is the development that occurs

THE FIRES OF INFLATION continue to smolder, even as recession threatens the U.S. economy. Sooner or

With Japanese authorities finally having reluctantly liberalized most if not all of their markets in

U.S. efforts to negotiate new commercial accords with Western Europe and Japan are long overdue. But

The American consumer - burdened by a mountain of debt, face-to-face withuncertain job prosp

HOW CAN A GOVERNMENT lose a referendum in a country in which candidates normally win a solid 99.9 pe

IT'S HARD TO THINK of a duller subject than tariff classifications. It's a subject so dull Congress

Congressman Mickey Leland, D-Texas, recently introduced in the House of Representatives the most sen

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - If U.S. politicians were writing a book titled ''How to Lose Friends and

Cargo Preference Report CorrectedThe Nov. 23, 1987 issue of The Journal of Commerce reports

THE TRAGIC BLOOD BATH that quashed Haitians' hopes of electing their first democratic government in

THEY TOOK TOO LONG, and blew a perfect opportunity for more dramatic action, but the economic summit

A recent (Nov. 17) article on problems of the Philadelphia port contained a sweeping indictment supp

WHEN WORLD TRADE CENTERS began appearing on the scene 40 years ago, they provided a fresh approach t

Gary N. Horlick wrote the article headlined Trade Barriers Spur Investment," which appeared on this

SOME U.S. INDUSTRIES are worried about Brazilian counter-reprisals, if the United States hikes tarif