If the public interest is involved, foreign-related cases concerning labour protection, food safety, environmental protection, forex control, anti-monopoly and anti-dumping may be governed by PRC mandatory provisions.
The Cross-Strait Investment Agreement provides investors with greater confidence, but Taiwan and China need to work on enforcement rules to ensure dispute resolution mechanisms function
While attention in 2012 focused on the controversial divisions between CIETAC and its sub-commissions in Shanghai and Shenzhen, there have been a number of more positive developments affecting the outlook for arbitration in China
All eyes were on the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) in 2012 as two sub-commissions broke away with the Commission's new Arbitration Rules as one of the contributing reasons for the split