The Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: Divergent Interpretations
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INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS: DIVERGENT
INTERPRETATIONS
LISA M. RYAN*
I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................... 99
II. THEORmCAL ADVANTAGES OF A UNIFIED
INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS LAW ....................................... 100
III. DIVERGENT INTERPRErATIONS OF CISG PROVISIONS BY
DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING STATES ....................................... 101
A. Usage of Trade ............................................................... 102
B. Need for a Writing .......................................................... 105
C. Open Price Terms ........................................................... 108
D. Notice Requirements for Nonconforming Goods .......... 109
E. Force Majeure Provision ................................................ 112
IV. ADDmONAL DIFIcuLnES IN INTERPRETATION
PRESENTED BY THE CONDITION OF DEVELOPING STATES .......... 114
V . CONCLUSION ................................................................................ 117
I. INTRODUCTION
The 1980 Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International
Sale of GoodsI (CISG) is a uniform set of rules designed to meet the
practical needs of international merchants. These uniform rules attempt
to accommodate the different social, economic, and legal systems in the
international community2 in order to develop international trade and to
* Senior Associate, Fragomen, Del Rey & Bemsen, P.C., Chicago, Illinois; A.B., Cornell
University, 1991; J.D., Tulane University School of Law, 1994.
1. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
(CISG), pmbl., U.N. Doc. A/CONF.97/18 (1980), reprinted in UNrrEE NATIONS CoNFERENcE ON
CoNTAcrs FOR THE ImmNATONAL SALE OF GOODS: OFICIL RECORDS at 178-90, U.N. Doc.
A/CONF.97/19 (1981) [hereinafter UN OnqCiALRECoRDS].
2. Id. pmbl. As of April 1, 1992, the following nations had ratified or acceded to the
CISG: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Belarus, Canada, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia,
Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Guinea, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Lesotho,
Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic,
Uganda, United States, Ukraine, Russian Federation, Yugoslavia, and Zambia. Multilateral
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