This article first appeared in the December 12, 2003 issue of The Lawyers Weekly. Reprinted with permission of LexisNexis Butterworths Canada Ltd., 75 Clegg Road, Markham, Ontario, Canada L6G1A1.

by Benjamin M. Zuffranieri, Jr. and Joshua I. Feinstein

The United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) governs trade between Canada and the United States, as well as among 60 other signatory states. Despite the CISG's far-reaching consequences, many North American legal practitioners on both sides of the border are barely aware of the CISG, which was enacted in 1980 and adopted by the United States and Canada in 1988 and 1992, respectively.

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