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Ministry of Supply, Cario and Another v. Universe Tankships Inc

United States.  23 May 1983 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Abstract

State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Commercial activity exception — Foreign government agency — Claim based upon commercial activity carried on in the United States — Whether including claim for damage suffered abroad — Decision turning on whether act causing damage constituting integral part of commercial activity carried on in the United States — Requirement to look at transaction as a whole — Shipment to Egypt of wheat purchased by Egyptian government agency in the United States — Action against government agency for delaying unloading of vessel in Egypt — Whether action based upon commercial activity carried on in the United States — Counterclaim exception — Whether including crossclaims — Relationship between counterclaim and commercial activity exceptions — Whether finding by court that counterclaim exception inapplicable barring application of commercial activity exception — United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976 — The law of the United States

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© Cambridge University Press 1994

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