---
kind: "section"
citation: "9 U.S.C. § 301"
title: "9"
title_heading: "Arbitration"
number: "301"
heading: "Enforcement of Convention"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/9/301"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration"
---

# §301. Enforcement of Convention


The Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of January 30, 1975, shall be enforced in United States courts in accordance with this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–369, § 1, Aug. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 448.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 101–369, § 3, Aug. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 450, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] shall take effect upon the entry into force of the Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of January 30, 1975, with respect to the United States.” The Convention entered into force for the United States on Oct. 27, 1990.