{"id":2432,"date":"2020-11-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venfort.com\/blog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2020-11-12T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:00:00","slug":"keys-to-the-united-nations-convention-on-international-sales-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venfort.com\/en\/claves-convencion-de-naciones-unidas-sobre-contratos-compraventa-internacional\/","title":{"rendered":"Key points of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods and Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

The international sale and purchase of goods is a constant and complex operation.<\/strong> in today's world. The United Nations articulated efforts to bring to life a convention between States that would build a modern, uniform and equitable system with the capacity to legally support sales contracts in order to reduce the costs and expenses related to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law<\/strong>created by the General Assembly of the United Nations, considers that \".the contract of sale is the basis of international trade in all countries, regardless of their legal tradition or economic development.<\/em>\"For this reason, they allege that the United Nations Sales Convention \".is one of the key instruments of international trade, which should be adopted by all countries.<\/em>\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the article<\/strong> 40 years of the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)<\/a>l, the lawyer, arbitrator and professor of Maritime Law, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pejov\u00e9s, estimated that international purchases and sales with incidence of maritime transport correspond to 80% of the transactions of the international commercial activity. The text was published in the web portal Mundo Mar\u00edtimo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods<\/strong>The Convention was signed in Vienna on April 11, 1980, in an attempt to regulate these booming activities. Its text entered into force eight years later, in January 1988. It brings together the interests of the buyer and seller, with the intention of encouraging agreement and respect for fundamental principles during a transaction of this nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had its origins in 1930 in Rome within the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law.<\/strong>. However, the Second World War dispersed the efforts and it was in 1964 when the proposal was presented at a diplomatic conference held in The Hague. The first eleven member countries were: Argentina, China, Egypt, France, Hungary, Italy, Lesotho, Syria, United States, Yugoslavia and Zambia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the major benefits of this instrument<\/strong>The Commission of the United Nations United Nations<\/a> The main feature of the Convention for International Trade Law is its direct application to the countries that have signed the Convention, without the need for the intervention of the rules of private international law. This particularity offers certainty and predictability to contracts of this type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, as the Commission has stated <\/strong>\"The Convention provides for a set of neutral rules that can be easily accepted given its transnational nature and the existence of abundant interpretative material.<\/em>\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, the convention has been ratified by 94 countries worldwide.<\/strong> Venezuela was not part of this list, since it is only a signatory. It is for this reason that this legal mechanism has not entered into force in the national territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Provisions of the International Sales Convention<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The following are the keys to understanding this international legal instrument:<\/p>\n\n\n\n