9 U.S.C. § 301
Section 301 · Enforcement of Convention
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case 978 F. Supp. 266 - In Re the Arbitration Between Trans Chemical Ltd. & China National MacHiney Import & Export Corp. (1997)
Most recently applied in Corporacion AIC, SA v. Hidroelectrica Santa Rita S.A. (April 2023)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of January 30, 1975, shall be enforced in United States courts in accordance with this chapter.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Effective Date
Section 3 of Pub. L. 101–369 provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] shall take effect upon the entry into force of the Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of January 30, 1975, with respect to the United States.” The Convention was entered into force for the United States on Oct. 27, 1990.