United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is a treaty offering a uniform international sales law that, as of August 2010, has been ratified by 76 countries that account for a significant proportion of world trade, making it one of the most successful international uniform laws. Turkey is the most recent state to have ratified the Convention.

The CISG allows exporters to avoid choice of law issues as the CISG offers ‘accepted substantive rules on which contracting parties, courts, and arbitrators may rely’.

The CISG was developed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and was signed in Vienna in 1980. The CISG is sometimes referred to as the Vienna Convention (but is not to be confused with other treaties signed in Vienna). It came into force as a multilateral treaty on 1 January 1988, after being ratified by eleven countries.Argentina,...
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