Order of Merchants
International Conventions
UNICITRALThe United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) was established by the United Nations General Assembly by its Resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966 "to promote the progressive harmonization and unification of international trade law". (http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/index.html)
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CISGThe United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG; the Vienna Convention) is a treaty
that is a uniform international sales law. As of December 2012, it had been ratified by 78 countries that account for a significant proportion of world trade, making it one of the most successful international uniform laws. (http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/uncitral_texts/sale_goods.html) |
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Hamburg RulesThe Hamburg Rules are a set of rules governing the international shipment of goods, resulting from the United Nations International Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea adopted in Hamburg on 31 March 1978. The Convention was an attempt to form a uniform legal base for the transportation of goods on oceangoing ships. A driving force behind the convention was the attempt of developing countries' to level the playing field. It came into force on 1 November 1992. (http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/transport_goods/Hamburg_rules.html)
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