5.2 Importance of Unified International Sales of Goods

The problem: the different national laws (the divergent remedies, the different implied terms) — the merchant's uncertainty and costs (the governing-law negotiation's burden; the dispute's unpredictability; the small traders' exclusion). The unification's benefits: the same rules (predictability); the forum-neutrality (the home-law advantage's removal); the transaction costs' reduction; the small traders' access.