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The Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China recently issued a letter on 30 December 2009 to all Higher People's Courts in mainland China confirming that ad hoc arbitral awards made in Hong Kong and those arbitral awards made in Hong Kong by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and other foreign arbitration institutions are enforceable in mainland China in accordance with the Arrangement concerning Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region signed in 1999 (the "Arrangement"
In a recent decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Apple & Eve, LLC v. Yantai North Andre Juice Co., Ltd., No. 07-CV-745 (JFB)(WDW) (E.D.N.Y. April 27, 2009), the Court found that the defendant had waived its right to arbitration, thereby rendering the arbitration clause null and void under Article II of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the “New York Convention”
