U.S. Prepares for Ratification of OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

On April 7, 1998, U.S. officials provided an optimistic view of the prospects for ratification and implementation of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Public Officials in International Business Transactions, signed by the U.S. and thirty-two other countries on December 17, 1997. This article summarizes the situation and some of the practice implications... [more]