Commercial Arbitration
Beijing, a city with favorable judicial environment and a mature arbitration system, provides a convenient environment for cross-border and trans-regional business entities to resolve disputes equally and fairly. Beijing Arbitration Commission/Beijing International Arbitration Center (hereby known as BAC) provides first-class dispute resolution services for businesses in different countries and regions.
Improvement in Business Environment
Enhance the ability to resolve international commercial disputes, and actively introduce professional organizations to establish a joint litigation, mediation and arbitration processing model for foreign-related commercial cases.
Mediation organizations and arbitration institutions are also encouraged to introduce foreign mediators and arbitrators as well as to put in place sound introduction procedures and standards for them. Currently, about 22 percent of the arbitrators working in BAC are foreign employees.
To facilitate the international commercial arbitration activities in Beijing, notice of hearing issued by domestic arbitration authorities are allowed to be used as visa documents for entities of foreign markets to enter Beijing for arbitration. No other invitation letter is required.
Arbitration Case Filings
Arbitration institutions accept disputes over economic contracts and disputes over other property rights and interests between citizens, legal persons and other organizations. Arbitration institutions shall not accept administrative disputes falling within the jurisdiction of relevant administrative organs, labor relations disputes, disputes over agricultural benefit contracts within collective agricultural economic organizations, as well as disputes involving personal relations such as marriage, adoption, guardianship, support and inheritance.
Where the parties in dispute wish to settle the dispute through arbitration, they shall enter into an arbitration agreement. An arbitration agreement shall include the arbitration clauses provided in the contract and any other written form of agreement concluded before or after the disputes providing for submission to arbitration.
Make an appointment online in advance. Fill in the basic information of the case and make an appointment for filing. Registration link: http://service.bjac.org.cn/webcase/
Prepare the following materials: 1Arbitration application 2Identification materials of the parties and authorization materials 3Evidence materials
Submit all materials for examination and review;
Pay the fees after all materials are approved;
The case will be accepted after all aforementioned steps are completed.
Arbitration Resources
BAC has rich experience in settling various types of commercial disputes. The parties it has served in arbitration cases so far come from 55 countries and regions around the world.
There is no limitation on the number of the agents per case, and international cases managed by BAC can be represented by foreign lawyers.
In the past three years, BAC's average time to settle a case is 97.9 days, reflecting its high efficiency in case management.
BAC pioneered an internationally-accepted fee structure in China, assisting its clients in managing costs for settling disputes.
BAC revised its arbitration rules in 2022. Under the revised rules, the presiding arbitrator of each case can be jointly nominated by the arbitrators appointed. The rules also stipulate that the tribunal may choose to hold virtual hearings.
Setting up Business Offices