Katyrin: The number of international commercial disputes in the ICAC has increased by more than 55%.

While 167 international commercial disputes were filed with the arbitration court in 2020, that number reached 241 in 2024, and over the first nine months of 2025, it has already exceeded 260. This was announced by the chamber's president, Sergei Katyrin, at a press conference at TASS.

"Over the past six years, the number of international disputes before the ICAC has increased by more than 55%. This confirms the growing demand for the Russian arbitration platform among businesses, including foreign participants," Katyrin noted.

According to him, in 2024, the distribution of foreign companies applying to the ICAC was as follows: 31% were from the CIS countries, 28% from Europe, 19% from the Middle East, 18% from Asia, 2% each from the Americas and other regions. The largest number of disputes occurred in China, Belarus, and Turkey.

"Just five or six years ago, German companies were second only to Russian companies in terms of the number of applications. Today, their share has declined, but the number of disputes involving German companies remains significant. In 2024–2025, companies from Estonia, Canada, Switzerland, Lithuania, Sweden, and the United States also filed claimants at the ICAC," added the head of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He emphasized that over the past five years, there has been a trend toward a decline in the share of disputes with European companies—from 51% of the total in 2020 to 28% in 2024. At the same time, the number of cases involving companies from the Asia-Pacific region and the CIS countries is growing.

Katyrin noted that up to 10% of all cases annually involve disputes between non-residents. In 2024–2025, the ICAC received such disputes as Lithuania v. Switzerland, Germany v. Uzbekistan, Austria v. Germany, Belarus v. Italy, China v. Turkey, Moldova v. Germany, Germany v. the United States, Serbia v. Kyrgyzstan, the UAE v. Kyrgyzstan, and others.

"Such statistics are a recognition of the ICAC's authority and a sign of trust in it on the part of foreign entrepreneurs. It is also important that in many cases, parties voluntarily comply with ICAC decisions both in Russia and abroad. Moreover, the voluntary compliance rate is much higher than in the state court system," concluded the President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.