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Commercial Treaties And International Trade Transactions In East-West Trade, Clive M. Schmitthoff
Commercial Treaties And International Trade Transactions In East-West Trade, Clive M. Schmitthoff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Operations of international trade law are transacted on two levels--that of public law and that of private law. This distinction is clearly drawn in the Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on "The Progressive Development of the Law of International Trade," a report which, it may be recalled, preceded the establishment of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCI-TRAL) in December 1966. That report limits its ambit to the "law of international trade," which is defined as "the body of rules governing commercial relationships of a private law nature involving different countries." The report excludes from …