Replying to the request for instructions from a High People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Court instructed the lower court to recognize a UK award issued by the International Cotton Association (ICA). The High People’s Court had found against recognition, on the ground that the award decided on an inseverable aggregate amount covering twenty-two contracts between the parties, but that the conclusion by email of three of those contracts was not sufficiently proven (the other contracts had been concluded by fax). The Supreme People’s Court noted that, prior to the commencement of the arbitration, the applicant had served a notice of termination to the respondent which listed all the twenty-two contracts at issue, and that the respondent had replied asking for negotiations because on performance difficulties, but had not disputed the contracts’ existence. The Court held that the respondent’s reply proved the existence of the contracts, including the arbitration clauses therein.