The CUHK LAW Greater Bay Area (GBA) Forum Seminar Series offers a platform for the exchange of ideas, views and visions amongst academics and members of the legal professions in relation to legal aspects of the GBA. The next seminar, "The Application of the CISG in the GBA", will be delivered online by CUHK LAW Dean Professor Lutz-Christian WOLFF on 23 March 2023.
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) has entered into force on 1 January 1988. It is the purpose of the CISG "to provide a modern, uniform and fair regime for contracts for the international sale of goods." (UNCITRAL, (CISG), Text – Explanatory note). As of January 2023 the CISG had 95 Contracting States including China and other major trading nations. The CISG has consequently been regarded as one of the most successful international legal unification projects while, however, critics continue to point to the potential advantages of domestic sales law regimes.
The CISG did not apply in Hong Kong and Macau before they became Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China and it has always been doubtful if the situation has changed after the so-called "handovers". On 29 September 2022 the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong SAR then passed the Sale of Goods (United Nations Convention) Ordinance (Cap. 641) (Ordinance) and accordingly the CISG came (officially) into effect in Hong Kong on 1 December 2022. The situation for Macau has remained unchanged.
The applicability of the CISG is governed by a set of partly complex CISG rules. This seminar explains these rules and considers their implication for sales transactions within the Greater Bay Area and between GBA parties and parties based outside China.
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