1.4 Efforts to Unify International Trade Law

1. UNCITRAL — the UN's trade-law commission (the model laws-and-conventions: the CISG's sponsorship, the arbitration's framework, the e-commerce's model law). 2. UNIDROIT — the private-law unification (the principles's faces); the Hague Conference (the private international law). 3. The ICC — the business's self-regulation (the Incoterms, the UCP — Unit 5's world). 4. UNCTAD — the development's voice (the preferences, the code-and-fair-trade debates). 5. The WTO's contribution — the public law's unification (the single undertaking's discipline). 6. The regional harmonisation (the EU's single market; the ASEAN's integration; the SAFTA's South Asian faces). 7. The challenges: the uniformity's limits (the reservations, the interpretations, the common- law-civil-law gaps); the new subjects' speed (the digital — faster than the treaties).