The many and varied recent developments in the field of international commercial arbitration in 1999, are brought together in this volume of the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration. As in previous volumes, the accent lies on cases in the form of arbitral awards and court decisions, 80 in total. They are selected for inclusion for their general interest and relevance to international practice, presented in a uniform style and translated into English from Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Swedish and Spanish, as the case may be. The selection of arbitral awards covers a broad spectrum of commercial sectors: finance, maritime, commodities and manufacturing, as well as a variety of contract types such as consultancy, distributorship, foreign investment and sales.