This significant one-volume treatise explains and comments on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the major international treaty regulating the sale of goods among businesses located in different nations. The treatise contains both a detailed analysis and description of the CISG's provisions and the growing case law in both the United States and internationally. It also compares and contrasts the CISG and the Uniform Commercial Code's treatment of important issues relevant to the sale of goods contracts and discusses the existing commentary and other literature on the CISG. The volume will be of assistance to commercial litigators and transactional counsel, as well as to teachers and students of international commercial law.

Topics covered include the history and scope of the CISG, contract formation rules, implied terms, buyer and seller obligations, standards of breach, risk of loss, treatment of standard terms, exemption from performance and remedies.