Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-03
ARBITRATION WORKS
|NARGENT|NE TRADE
National Chamber of Com
merce Committee Says Plan
Has Made Good Impression.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE

The committee on international arbi-
tration of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States. in its report TO the
fifth annual convention of the cham
her. which came to a conclusion here
YESTERDAY, told of the successful re-
suits of the work of the committee in
connection with arbitration between
this country and Argentina.
Owen D. Young of New York, vice
president of the General Electric Com
pany and chairman of the committee,
told the delegates that arrangements
have been completed with the Bolsa
de Commercio de Buenos Aires FOR ar
bitrating disputes affecting trade with
Argentina. Both in Argentina and TINS
country men of the highest standing IN
the business community have not oniy
given their support to the plan, but
have consented to give personal serV-
ice to get at any basis there may be
for business complaints and the causes
of misunderstanding. The inausura-
ton of practical arbitration in our
trade with Argentina is at this moment
especially opportune,' the report de-
clareS.
Complaints About Exporters.
"On the one hand complaints have
come from Argentina to the effect that
some American exporters were not COM
plying with their contracts" the COM
nittee report goes on. "On the other
hand the federal trade commission re-
ports that in Latin America unfair COM
petition is conducted against our goods
and trade by some OF our European
rivals and that 1t not 1nfrequently
takes the form of calumny. Any such
outward conditions as these will. of
course, be aggravated when the war
in Europe closes. The existence of an
efficient means for arbitration, II sup
ported in the whole-hearted way IN
which we know United States business
men will take 1t up. will at once afford
a way for adjusting any well founded
complaints in accordance with thear
merits and by establishing and making
Known the facts will destroy all chance
for successful calumny.
The code known as A. A A, or Amer
lean Argentinian arbitration clause.
can now be incorporated in trading
contracts and should result in better
mutual understanding and the further
ance of trade between the two coun-
tries. The way is now open for similar
agreements with other countries"
Plan in Other Countries.
The committee thinks that similar
plan should be made with Uruguay, and
that 1T should not stop with those two
countries. In fact, the report says. when
representatives of most of the countries
Of Latin America assembled in Buenos
Aires last April at a meeting of the in
ternational high commission, the plan
which has been perfected with the
Buenos Aires Boisa de Concrete was
unanimously approved, and its extern
sion to representative organizations in
other Latin American republics was
formally recommended.
The mower that is to stand back of the
arbitrator. the sanction they will have.
according to the committee. is the or
ganiZed business sentiment OF the coun-
try as represented here by the national
chamber and all the commercial and
trade organizations in its membership
and as represented in Argentina by the
Bolsa de Concrete and all Argentina
commercial interests it represents
This is the enforcing power. the com
mittee report says, upon which many
trade organizations in the United States
have relied when settling their mem
bers' differences, and there is every
reason to believe that in this extension
of the principle to the commercial re-
lations of the two countries it will be
equally successful.
Great Britain Considering Plan.
That these suggestions of attention to
the plan from other countries were
well founded, the report concluded, ap-
peared very quickly. for the text of the
plan, which had been translated into
Spanish for use in Argentina, was re-
translated into English and sent to
England, where the Association of
Chambers of Commerce of the United
Kingdom is understood to be consider
ing the feasibility of a similar arrange
ment for arbitration of disputes arising
in British-Argentine trade.
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