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Party Autonomy in Chinese International Arbitration: A Comment on Recent Developments - Vol. 8 No. 3-4 ARIA 1997

Author(s): 
Sam Blay
Page Count: 
16 pages
Media Description: 
1 PDF from "The American Review of International Arbitration (ARIA)"
Published: 
December, 1997
Jurisdictions: 
China
Practice Areas: 
CIETAC,
Parties,
Responsibility of Parties,
Agreement to Arbitrate,
Contractual or Consensual Basis of Arbitration
Tags: 
Party Autonomy
Author Detail: 

Sam Blay - LLB; LLM; PhD; Professor of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

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Originally from American Review of International Arbitration - ARIA

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I. INTRODUCTION

As far back as 1956, the People's Republic of China established the Foreign Trade Arbitration Commission (FTAC).1 Under the FTAC Rules, the Commission was vested with exclusive authority to arbitrate disputes concerning “foreign trade” between “foreign firms, companies or other economic organizations on the one hand and Chinese firms, companies or other economic organizations on the other.”2 In specific terms, the jurisdiction of the FTAC covered: