An expert Q&A with Steven A. Hammond of Independence DRS, LLC on the US District Court for the District of Columbia's January 8, 2013 decision in Commissions Import Export SA v. Republic of the Congo. In that case, the court held that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts Washington DC's Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgment Recognition Act of 2011 and applied the three-year limitations period in FAA Section 207 to bar recognition of the foreign arbitral award in the US.