Features of the Application of the Vienna Convention on Contracts for International Sale of 1980 in the BRICS Countries (New Membership)

This article discusses the specifics of applying the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of 1980 in the BRICS countries. More recently, new countries have joined the BRICS. The author set herself the task of examining this issue within the framework of the new composition of the BRICS countries. It was possible to analyze the national contractual law of some BRICS countries on supply issues, namely, Egypt, Russia, China, Brazil and other ones, compare them with the Vienna Convention of 1980, identify similarities and differences. To study various reservations to the Vienna Convention of 1980, which were made by a number of BRICS countries when ratifying this international treaty. And most importantly, to analyze study the specifics of regulating international sale contracts concluded by counterparties from a variety of BRICS countries, both participants and non-participants of the Vienna Convention of 1980.