Policy proposals for the formulation of international uniform sales law based on a supply chain sales model

Through her research, Associate Professor Eriko Taoka is shedding light on the actual state of the use of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). CISG cases are available on databases and, in her work, Taoka gathered and coded these in order to extract the worldwide and regional trends in the use of the CISG. She found that some countries have reported more CISG cases than others and not because certain countries have a lower degree of opt-out trends. Indeed, the data indicates that there is little basis to attribute the frequency to use the CISG to the opt-out trend. Taoka also found that the global trend in the use of CISG has shown a decline since the mid-1990s. This is contrary to the popular assumption that its use has increased year-on-year. Through further investigations into the CISG case dataset against the background of the international exports and imports, Taoka found that the declining trends observed in multiple international sales contexts align with the manners of international supply chains spread. Furthermore, the sales structure of the supply chains confirms the correlation between the decline of CISG cases and the spread of supply chains. As the CISG only governs performance issues, the more supply chains spread, the more international sales in the world become those that do not have the potential for the CISG to be applicable.