The Supreme People’s Court instructed the lower court to deny recognition and enforcement of a foreign award under Art. V(1)(a) of the 1958 New York Convention, because under the applicable lex personalis, Chinese law, the person who had signed the contract and the arbitration agreement had not had the power to represent the respondent. Also, the company’s seal had not been affixed, the signatory’s conduct had been explicitly disavowed by the respondent, and there was no previous practice that could justify a finding of apparent authority.