Applicable law to a sales contract/ conflict of laws rules/ application of Article 3-1 of the 1955 Hague Convention on the law applicable to international sales/ law of the seller's country strong connecting factor/ place of negotiation and signature of contract and of destiny of goods does not override seller's country.

'X, as stated in the Terms of Reference, maintained that the dispute should be resolved with the application of English law, while Y maintained that the law of Bangladesh should be applied, since the contracts were entered into and signed in Dacca and the cargoes should be shipped to Bangladesh. However, Y did not present any evidence on the law of Bangladesh relating to the legal questions of the case and did not wish the arbitrator to perform his own research on such law but requested him to resolve the case assuming that the law of Bangladesh conformed with the relevant general principles of international commercial law.

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The seller's domicile, under most national laws and under the 1955 Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to International Sales Art. 3(1), is a strong connecting factor to the law of the seller's country. Although the contracts were negotiated and signed in Dacca where Y-without having an establishment there-was represented by ... from the ABC Embassy and concluded re-sale contracts under barter arrangements with the government of Bangladesh and the goods were to be shipped to Bangladesh to be received by ultimate buyers in that country, I do not think that these factors would outweigh the seller's domicile as connecting factor. I therefore rule that the dispute shall be resolved according to English law.'