In Re the Arbitration Between Amtorg Trading Corp. & Camden Fibre Mills, Inc.

Appellant, Camden Fibre Mills, Inc. (hereinafter called Camden), as purchaser, entered into a contract with Amtorg Trading Corporation (hereinafter called Amtorg), as seller, on September 17, 1947. Amtorg is a domestic corporation, organized in 1924, but is in effect an agency of the Soviet Government in carrying on trade and commerce in this country. Camden is a Pennsylvania corporation. The contract provides for arbitration of disputes — not settled by agreement of the parties’ representatives in New York — before the IT. S. S. R. Chamber of Commerce Foreign Trade Arbitration Commission in…