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Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

1980

United Nations

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A New Uniform Law For The International Sale Of Goods: Is It Compatible With American Interests?, Martin L. Ziontz Jan 1980

A New Uniform Law For The International Sale Of Goods: Is It Compatible With American Interests?, Martin L. Ziontz

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The prospects for adoption of a law gov- erning commercial' contracts for the international sale of goods should be of compelling interest to American merchants and their legal advi- sors. The text which was presented to the diplomatic conference in March was completed by the United Nations Commission on Interna- tional Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in 1978.1 Its eighty-two articles em- body the substantive revisions of a similar document that was rejected by the United States sixteen years ago'--the 1964 Hague Convention Relating to a Uniform Law for the International Sale of Goods