---
kind: "section"
citation: "9 U.S.C. § 306"
title: "9"
title_heading: "Arbitration"
number: "306"
heading: "Applicable rules of Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/9/306"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration"
---

# §306. Applicable rules of Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission

- (a) For the purposes of this chapter the rules of procedure of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission referred to in Article 3 of the Inter-American Convention shall, subject to [subsection (b)](#b) of this section, be those rules as promulgated by the Commission on July 1, 1988.
- (b) In the event the rules of procedure of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission are modified or amended in accordance with the procedures for amendment of the rules of that Commission, the Secretary of State, by regulation in accordance with [section 553 of title 5](/usc/5/553.md), consistent with the aims and purposes of this Convention, may prescribe that such modifications or amendments shall be effective for purposes of this chapter.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–369, § 1, Aug. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 449.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective upon the entry into force of the Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of January 30, 1975, with respect to the United States (Oct. 27, 1990), see section 3 of Pub. L. 101–369, set out as a note under section 301 of this title.