ICC Model International Sale Contract

The ICC Model International Sale Contract is intended to provide a reliable and equitable standard legal platform for the global export-import sector. ICC, as the world business organization, has sought to respond to the need for a set of clear and concise standard contractual conditions which balance the interests of export sellers and import buyers.

A flexible and clear model contract providing directions to sellers and buyers of manufactured goods. This ICC model allows users either to incorporate only the general conditions or to include the specific conditions, which set out standard terms common to all contracts with the ICC General Conditions of Sale. A CD-ROM provides the text of the model, and useful annexes include the Golden Rules of Incoterms and United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods. Easy-to-use for first-time traders, but also providing the legal protection demanded by experienced practitioners.

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Foreword

By Maria Livanos Cattaui, former Secretary General of ICC

The ICC Model International Sale Contract is intended to provide a reliable and equitable standard legal platform for the global export-import sector. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), as the world business organization, has sought to respond to the need for a set of clear and concise standard contractual conditions which balance the interests of export sellers and import buyers.

This model contract, the third in a successful series produced under the Chairmanship of Fabio Bortolotti (Italy), has benefited from the extensive drafting contributions of the Chairman of the ICC Commission on International Commercial Practice, Roy Goode (U.K.), as well as from the Commission Vice-Chairman, Jan Ramberg (Sweden) and Incoterms Panel Co-rapporteur, Charles Debattista, the contacts were: Martin Vetter (Austria), Hans Van Houtte (Belgium), Didier Matray (Belgium), Ole Lando (Denmark), Sarno Lindberg (Finland), Lauris Railas (Finland), Didier Ferrier (France), and Klaus Meyer Swantee (Netherlands). As always, the ICC National Committees around the world were instrumental in circulating early drafts of this contract to their trading communities for comment. Administrative support was provided by ICC staff: Anne-Marie Harper, Guillermo Jimenez, Emmanuel Jolivet and Pascale Reins.

ICC would also like to thank Gerold Herrmann, Secretary General of Uncitral, for his kind permission to reprint in its entirety the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods.