CISG
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If it is true, as has been suggested, that the unification of the law governing transnational commerce promotes the flow of international trade through the creation of certainty and predictability, the bedrock desiderata of any commercial law, let alone one that is applicable to transnational situations, then it is unsurprising that efforts have long been underway to unify the law governing the contract for the sale of goods (—> Sale contracts· and sale of goods), the mercantile contract par excellence, the 'pillar of the entire system of commercial relations' and, thus, the 'lifeblood of international commerce'. From the very start, those unification efforts were focused on the creation of rules regarding contracts for the sale of goods linked to more than one jurisdiction. The goal was to create a set of rules that would allow one to overcome the consequences of the coexistence of different national legal systems characterized by country-specific rules, considered to be an impediment 'to economic relationships which constantly increase among citizens of different countries; an obstacle above all for the enterprises that are involved in international commerce and that acquire primary resources or distribute goods in different countries which all have different law'.
Source Publication
Encyclopedia of Private International Law
Source Editors/Authors
Jürgen Basedow, Giesela Rühl, Franco Ferrari, Pedro de Miguel Asensio
Publication Date
2017
Volume Number
1
Recommended Citation
Ferrari, Franco, "CISG" (2017). Faculty Chapters. 560.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/560
