ABSTRACT
The success of international customary law or trade usage provided a strong foundation for an international convention on sales law. This chapter reviews the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in detail in order to expose the reader to the important international document and reviews the major issues of international sales law. The United States has two laws of contracts for the sale of goods: the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and the CISG. The CISG is compared to the U. S. UCC and differences is highlighted. The coverage of the CISG can be grouped into three broad areas: substantive coverage, jurisdiction, and types of transactions. The CISG is the product of compromise between the world's major legal systems—common law, civil law, and socialist law. Section 2-715 of the UCC allows for the recovery of consequential damages stemming from the seller's breach due to "injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.
