LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

CISG ANTECEDENTS

Match-up of CISG Article 56 with ULIS provisions

"[CISG] Article 56 is in the same terms as the corresponding provisions of ULIS." Hager in Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods, Peter Schlechtriem ed. (Oxford 1998) 463 [citations omitted].

     CISG Article 56                      ULIS Article 58
                                         
If the price is fixed according      Where the price is fixed 
to the weight of the goods, in       according to the weight of 
case of doubt it is to be            the goods, is shall, in case of 
determined by the net weight.        doubt, be determined by the 
                                     net weight.