5.3 The UNCITRAL Convention (the CISG)

The features (the exam's list): The scope: the SALE OF GOODS between parties in DIFFERENT CONTRACTING STATES (or where the conflict rules lead to a contracting state); the exclusions — consumer sales, auctions, execution sales, securities, ships and aircraft; The two parts: formation (the offer-acceptance rules — the battle of forms' resolution) and the sale (the obligations, the risk, the remedies); The autonomy preserved: the parties may EXCLUDE or vary the Convention (it is the default law); the opt-out's primacy; the trade usages' incorporation (Art. 9 — the Incoterms' welcome); The interpretation (Art. 7): the good faith in international trade; the UNIFORMITY's duty (the autonomous interpretation — the foreign cases consulted); The exclusions from coverage: the contract's VALIDITY (domestic law retained); the liability for death or personal injury (the product-liability world outside).