International Chamber Of Commerce Research Articles

International Chamber of Commerce: Rules for the ICC Court of Arbitration, (1975 Revision)

International Chamber of Commerce: Rules for the ICC Court of Arbitration, (1975 Revision)

International Chamber of Commerce

International Chamber of Commerce

Arbitration of Disputes Between States and Private Enterprises in the International Chamber of Commerce

Arbitration of Disputes Between States and Private Enterprises in the International Chamber of Commerce

Administrative and Financial Matters

At the 1097th meeting the Council approved the report of the Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, which recommended that hearings be granted to four nongovernmental organizations: the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions, and the World Federation of United Nations Associations. At the 1108th meeting, the draft resolution contained in a report of the same committee on the subject of applications and re-applications for consultative status was adopted unanimously, granting the request for category B consultative status to the Association for the Study of the World Refugee Problem, the European Alliance of Press Agencies, and the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, and granting the request for inclusion on the register of the International Association of Electrical Contractors.

The Hague Conference on the Unification of Sales Law

The Hague Conference on the Unification of Sales Law Ernst Rabel Ernst Rabel 1Ernst Rabel was the first director of the Institut der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Berlin. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 1, Issue 1-2, Winter-Spring 1952, Pages 58–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/1.1-2.58 Published: 01 February 1952

Property-Protection Provisions in United States Commercial Treaties

The matter of public international rules for the protection of private property rights has frequently received the attention of publicists, courts and treaty-makers. Some recent developments, bearing upon different aspects of the general subject, seem to attest its current and continuing importance. For example, the presentation to Congress of President Truman’s Point Four plan occasioned questions as to the guaranteeing of overseas investments of United States citizens. A few weeks later, at a meeting of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, a Belgian speaker and a representative of the International Chamber of Commerce emphasized the need for treating lenders according to certain standards of decency and fair play, and expressed the view that an economic climate encouraging to foreign investment was as far away as ever. On a somewhat broader plane, the appearance in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), but not in the more recently evolved International Covenant on Human Rights (1950), of provisions looking to the right of individuals to own property (“alone as well as in association with others”) and to be free from being arbitrarily deprived of it, raises questions as to whether the right of private property is not a basic “human” right.

World Trade. Report to the British National Committee, International Chamber of Commerce, by a Sub-Committee on Post-War International Trade. With a Supplement on the Post-War Prospects, Possibilities and Limitations of the Export Trade of the United Kingdom

World Trade. Report to the British National Committee, International Chamber of Commerce, by a Sub-Committee on Post-War International Trade. With a Supplement on the Post-War Prospects, Possibilities and Limitations of the Export Trade of the United Kingdom

International Organization and the International Chamber of Commerce

International Organization and the International Chamber of Commerce

Merchants of Peace: Twenty Years of Business Diplomacy through the International Chamber of Commerce, 1919-1938. George I. Ridgeway

<i>Merchants of Peace: Twenty Years of Business Diplomacy through the International Chamber of Commerce, 1919-1938</i>. George I. Ridgeway

The International Chamber of Commerce and the Development of International Arbitration

The International Chamber of Commerce and the Development of International Arbitration

Highway Administration and Finance in Fifteen Countries. The International Chamber of Commerce

<i>Highway Administration and Finance in Fifteen Countries</i>. The International Chamber of Commerce

INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Highway Administration and Finance in Fifteen Countries. Pp. 168. Paris, 1937. Fr. 20.00

INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Highway Administration and Finance in Fifteen Countries. Pp. 168. Paris, 1937. Fr. 20.00

The Metric System and British Export Trade

PRESIDING at a lecture by the Rev. A. J. Stubbs, vice-chairman of the Decimal Association, at the Institute of Export on December 14, Sir Isidore Salmon, M.P., declared that British industry could save large sums of money internally, and increase international trade by millions of pounds a year, if Britain cared to adopt the metric system. “It is unbelievable,” he said, ”that our own Government has virtually ignored the decimal and metric systems, which are employed by every one of our foreign competitors and many of our Colonies and Dominions. We should in our own interest do all we can to bring before the Government the urgent necessity of appointing a committee to inquire into the whole question.“Mr. Stubbs, who before he was ordained, was an electrical and civil engineer, said that of our oversea trade, 64 per cent went to decimalized coinage countries, including about one third of our British oversea markets. The importance of the metric system was also plain, he said, when it was realized that for export purposes we had to manufacture different sizes of machined products, other goods or cartons, and effect intricate internal calculations. It might be said that, to improve export trade, our first duty was to adopt the metric system with its internationally agreed and unalterable values. Mr. Stubbs mentioned that among the influential supporters of a British metric system and decimal coinage were the British Chamber of Commerce, the International Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of British Industries, the Trade Union Congress General Council and the National Association of Head Teachers.

The Employers of the United States and the International Labor Organization

IN THE Spring of 1930 an official of a New England manufacturers' association, a man reputed to have been prominent for many years in the councils of the National Association of Manufacturers, visited Geneva. Armed with a portfolio of letters of introduction, he penetrated far beyond the casual tourist lines. This visitor inspected and was impressed by the efficient and modern plant, with its employers' conference room, that houses the permanent staff in Geneva of the International Labor Organization. He observed the businesslike procedure whereby the Organization budgets, controls, and accounts for the receipt and expenditure of more than 81/2 million Swiss francs a year. He noted the methods of scientific research and collaboration through which group and national economic interests are resolved into international agreement. And finally, he interviewed the chief of the Employers' Organizations Service, the unit of the Intelligence and Relations Division which acts as a clearing house between the work of the International Labor Organization and the many national and international organizations of employers. During the interview he heard the names of prominent employers who participate in the work of the International Labor Organization and who represent their national organizations in helping to administer its affairs. Among the names mentioned he recognized some with whom he had at times been associated in activities of the International Chamber of Commerce. At the conclusion of his visit he summarized his reactions as follows:

Europe-United States. [Monographs presented to the Europe–United States Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce at the Washington Congress, 1931.

Europe-United States. [Monographs presented to the Europe–United States Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce at the Washington Congress, 1931.

The International Chamber of Commerce

The International Chamber of Commerce

The Reform of the Calendar

SINCE the War a number of ingenious schemes have been put forward for the reform of the calendar. Such an important step should not be taken unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, but the advantages claimed should be considered, the extent of the demand for it assessed, and the possibility of finding a scheme which would meet general approval carefully weighed. The League of Nations, being in a position to consult the various bodies which could give authoritative expression to opinion on the subject and the aid of which would be required in carrying out any changes proposed, undertook a full inquiry. It appointed a committee, with Prof, van Eysinga of Leyden as chairman, and with representatives of the Holy See, the Orthodox Church, the Church of England, the International Chamber of Commerce, and the International Astro-:nomical Union upon it. This committee has recently issued a short and valuable report.1

The League of Nations’ Report on the Unification of the Law of Negotiable Instruments

The Conference of Financial Experts held at Brussels in September,1920, recommended to the League of Nations as part of its scheme of financial rehabilitation “ that the activities of the League might usefully be directed towards promoting certain reforms,” the first of which was that progress should be made toward the unification of the laws of the various countries relating to bills of exchange and bills of lading. The International Chamber of Commerce and other trade bodies have likewise strongly supported a resumption of initiative in this direction, which was interrupted by the war. As a result, the Economic Committee of the League of Nations, acting in cooperation with the Government of the Netherlands,and with the approval of the Council and the Assembly, appointed four legal experts to report their opinions upon the attitude now prevailing in the various countries of the world toward the work of the two Hague Conferences on Negotiable Instruments and also as to whether further action toward unification was likely to meet with practical success. The following highly qualified experts were charged with the task: Sir Mackenzie Chalmers, well known as the author of the English Bills of Exchange Act of 1882; the late Professor David Josephus Jitta, formerly Councillor of State of the Netherlands; Professor Franz Klein, of Austria, and Professor Lyon-Caen, the well-known French authority on commercial law.

Law or War?

worthy of emphasis. It happens that there is available just at this time the best kind of evidence as to what the business opinion of this country and the world is on the question. The newspapers of the last two weeks have contained reports of the meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce at Rome. It was attended by representatives from 36 different nations,-all of them important business men in their different countries, and of such standing that their governments may be considered to have approved in advance the general trend of the stand that they took. The Resolutions unanimously adopted there show the progress that has been made in men's thought in the three years since the Peace Treaty was made, regarding the necessity of peace and of substituting law for war. I quote them in part. They begin with this statement:

The International Chamber of Commerce

is always in position to co6perate with the consular service, with representatives of the Department of Commerce, with foreign chambers and with American organizations both in the United States and abroad. In a majority of cases the initiative in establishing the chamber has been taken by the resident American consular officer, and the consul is actively interested in the chamber's work. Arrangements are frequently made with the local foreign organizations for an exchange of publications and service that proves helpful to both. American chambers of commerce abroad have sometimes complained, and not without reason, that their work is not accorded the support it should receive from home business men. At the same time they have realized that they lacked a direct point of contact with these home business interests. As a result some American chambers have established, and others are arranging to establish, in the United States representatives and committees to promote their interests, and particularly to increase their membership. Their plans also contemplate providing service through the medium of such representatives and through connections with commercial organizations in this country. A majority of the American chambers are organization members of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, which is actively taking up the problems they encounter and endeavoring to improve and extend their service.