International Sale of Goods

CISG in International Trade

Meaning of Cisg, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): The United Nations Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods. known as Vienna Convention, is a 1980 international treaty signed by most leading trading nations that amounts to a virtual commercial code for international sale of goods transactions, but exclude contracts for services. See Vienna Convention.

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See Also

Further Reading

• Babiak, A.: “Defining “Fundamental Breach” under the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods,” 6 Temple Int’L & Comp. L.J. (1992) 113.
• Behr, V.: “Commentary on Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt AM Main, 17 September 1991,” 12 J. L. & Com. (1993) at 271-275 (recorded in Pace University School of Law Home Page, Bibliography Section).
• Bianca, C. M.; Bonell, M. J.: Commentary on the International Sales Law, (Giuffre, Millan, 1987).
• Berman H.J.; Kaufmann C.: “The Law of International Sale Transactions (Lex Mercatoria),” 19 Harv. Int. L. J. (1978) 221.
• Curran, V. G.: “The Interpretative Challenge to Uniformity” (Book Review), 15 J. L. & Com. (1995) 175-199 (recorded in Pace University School of Law Home Page, Bibliography Section).
• Diederichsen, E.: Commentary to Journal of Law and Commerce Case 1; Oberlandesgericht, Frankfurt AM Main, 14 J. L. & Com. (1995) at 177-181 (recorded in Pace University School of Law Home Page, Bibliography Section).
• DTI: Consultative Document on UN Convention on Contracts for the International of Goods, (DTI, London, 1989).
• Enderlein; F.; Maskow, D.: International Sales Law; UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, (Oceana Publications Inc., New York, 1992).
• Eörsi G.: “A Propos the 1980 Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods,” 31 Am. J. Com. L. (1983) 333.
• Feltham, J. D.: “The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods,” J. B. L. [1981] 346.
• Flechtner, H. M.: “Remedies under the New international Sales Convention: The Perspective from Art. 2 of the UCC”; 8 J. L. & Com. (1988) 53.
• Goldenhielm, B.: “Some Views on the System of Remedies in the Uniform Law on International Sale,” 10 Scan. Stud. in L. (1966) 9.
• Graveson, C. G.: Uniform Law for International Sale of Goods Act 1967, (Butterworths, London, 1968).
• Guest A.G., et al: Benjamin’s Sale of Goods, (Sweet Maxwell, London, 1997, 4th ed).
• Honnold, J.: “Uniform Law of the International Sale of Goods: The Hague Convention of 1964,” 30 Law & Con. Prob. (1965) 326.
• Honnold, J.: “The International Sale of Goods (Draft Convention, Force Majeure and Frustration),” 27 Am. J. Int. L. (1979) 223.
• Honnold, J.: Uniform Law for International Sales Under the 1980 UN Convention, (Kluwer, Deventer, Boston, 1991, 2nd ed.).
• Karollus, M.: “Judicial Interpretation and Application of The Convention (CISG) in Germany 1988-1994,” Cornell Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1995) 51-94 (recorded in Pace University School of Law Home Page, Bibliography Section).
• Kritzer, A. H.: Guide to Practical Application of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, (Kluwer-Deventer Boston, 1989).
• Michida, S.: “Cancellation of Contract” 27 Am. J. Comp. L. [1979] 279.
• Nicholas, B.: “The Vienna Convention on International Sales Law” 105 L.Q.R., [1989], 201.
• Nina, M.; Galston and Hans Smit: International Sales: The U N Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Proceedings from the 1983 Conference Held by the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law), (Matthew Bender, New York, 1984).
• Schlechtriem, P.: Uniform Sales Law, (Manzsche Verlage- und Universitatsbuchhandlung, Vienna, 1986).
• Speidel, R.E.: “A Brief Analysis of Honnold’s Uniform Sales Law (Book Review),” 5 N.W.J. Int’L. L. & Bus. (1983) 432.
• Strub, M. G.: “The Convention on the International Sale of Goods: Anticipatory Repudiation Provisions and Developing Countries” 38 I.C.L.Q. (1989) 475.
• Treitel, G. H.: Remedies for Breach of Contract, in: 7 International Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law, vol. 7 (Chapter 16), (Mouton, The Hague, Paris, 1976) at 1-153.
• Treitel, G. H.: Remedies for Breach of Contract, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988).
• Voskuil C.C.A.; Wade J.A.: Hague-Zagreb Essays 4 on the Law of International Trade, (T.M.C. Asser Institute/Nijhoff, The Hague, 1983).
• Ziegel, J., & Samson, C.: “Report to the Uniform Law Conference of Canada on the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods,” (Ottawa, July 1981, recorded in Pace University School of Law Home Page, Bibliography Section).

Documents

• Commission on European Contract Law: “Principles of European Contract Law (Version 1998),” (recorded in Commission on European Contract Law Home Page).
• Honnold, J.: Documentary History of the Uniform Law for International Sales, (Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, Deventer/Netherlands, 1989).
• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC): “Uniform Customs and Practices for Documentary Credits (1993 Version).”
• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC): “International Contract Terms (INCOTERMS) (1990 version).”
• Official Records, The: Diplomatic Conference on the Unification of Law Governing the International Sale of Goods (Official Records), (The Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands, the Hague, 1966),Vol. 1 (Records).
• Official Records, The.: Diplomatic Conference on the Unification of Law Governing the International Sale of Goods, (The Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands, the Hague, 1966) Vol. 2 (Documents).
• Official Records, The.: United Nations, UN Conference on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods Vienna, 10 March-11 April 1980 (Official Records), (United Nations, New York, 1981).
• Secretariat Commentary, The United Nations Secretariat, Commentary on the Draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Prepared by the Secretariat, (Document A/Conf. 97/5, 1979, reprinted in the Official Records (1981) at 14-66.
• UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts” proposed by International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in 1994 (recorded in UNIDROIT Home Page).
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): Yearbook, Vol. I (1968-1970), (United Nations, New York, 1971).
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): Yearbook, Vol. II (1971), (United Nations, New York, 1972).
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): Yearbook, Vol. III (1972), (United Nations, New York, 1973).
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): Yearbook, Vol. V (1974), (United Nations, New York, 1975).
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL): Yearbook, Vol. VII (1976), (United Nations, New York, 1977).

Statutes

• French Civil Code (as amended to July 1, 1976): (Translated by Crabb, John H., Fred B. Rothman & Co., South Hackensack, New Jersy, 1977).
• German Civil Code (as amended to January 1992): (Translated by Simon L. Goren, Littleton, Colorado, 1994).
• Uniform Law on the International Sale of Goods (ULIS), April 1964.
• United Nations Conference on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 11 Apr. 1980, A/CONF. 97/18, 19 I.L.M. (1980) 668-695.

Judicial Decisions

N.B. All the cases referred to in the Convention part as to the interpretation of the Convention provisions are cited from the Pace University School of Law, UNCITRAL’s Home Pages and from UNILEX International Case Law & Bibliography on the UN Convention for the International Sale of Goods, edited by: Michael J. Bonell, et. al., Transnational Publishers, Inc. Irvington, New York, 1996.

(a) Austria

Austria 1 July 1994 Oberlandesgericht Innsbruck: Dansk Blumsterexport A/s v. Frick Blumenhandel (CLOUT abstract no. 107).

(b) Germany

Germany 31 August 1989 Landgericht Stuttgart (CLOUT abstract no. 4).
Germany 24 April 1990 Amtsgericht Oldenburg (CLOUT, abstract no. 7).
Germany 17 September 1991 Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt (CLOUT abstract no. 2).
Germany 10 February 1994 Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf [6 U 32/93] (CLOUT, abstract no. 81).
Germany 20 April 1994 Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt (CLOUT, abstract no. 84).
Germany 8 March 1995 Bundesgerichtshof (CLOUT abstract no. 123).
Germany 21 August 1995 Oberlandesgericht Stuttgart.

(c) Internation Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

ICC Arbitration Case No. 7585 of 1992.
ICC Arbitration Case No. 7531 of 1994.

(d) Italy

Italy 24 November 1989 Pretura circondariale di Parma (Foliopack Ag v. Daniplast S.p.A) (CLOUT, abstract no. 90).