Suspension Rules under Chinese Contract Law, the UCC and the CISG: Some Comparatiave Perspectives

September 02, 2004 | BY

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A comparative analysis of suspension rules under the three governing statutes for US-China sales contracts: the PRC Contract Law, the Uniform Commercial Code and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

By Yinghao Yang, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York

With an increasing volume of trade between China and the US in the recent years, transactions between commercial parties of the two countries are worthy of very close attention. A Sino-US contract of sale can be governed by any of three statutes

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