United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is a treaty offering a uniform international sales law that, as of 2006, had been ratified by 72 countries that account for three-quarters of all world trade. (Notably, the UK is not among the countries that have ratified the CISG, despite being a leading jurisdiction for the choice of law in international commercial contracts.) The CISG was signed in Vienna in 1980 and so is sometimes referred to as the Vienna Convention (but is not to be confused with other treaties signed in Vienna). It came into force as a multilateral treaty on January 1, 1988, after being ratified by ten countries. Countries that have ratified the CISG are referred to within the treaty as "Contracting States." Unless excluded by the express terms of a contract, the CISG is deemed to be incorporated into (and supplant) any otherwise applicable domestic law(s) with respect to a transaction in goods between parties from different Contracting States.

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