LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

CISG ANTECEDENTS

Match-up of CISG article 80 with ULIS/ULF provisions

     CISG Article 80                         ULIS Article 74(1)
 
A party may not rely on a failure   The relief provided by this Article 
of the other party to perform,      for one of the parties shall not    
to the extent that such failure     exclude the avoidance of the 
was caused by the first party's     contract under some other provision
act or omission.                    of the present Law or deprive the
                                    other party of any right which he
                                    has under the present Law to reduce
                                    the price, unless the circumstances
                                    which entitled the first party to
                                    relief were caused by the act of 
                                    the other party or of some other
                                    person for whose conduct he was
                                    responsible.