Trade Sanctions and International Sales: An Inquiry Into International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-90-411-5401-9
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Trade sanctions are powerful political tools devised to prevent the conclusion of new commercial contracts and paralyze the performance of pre-existing ones. Following the imposition of a sanction, a party prohibited from performing its obligations under a validly concluded contract may resolve to withhold performance or performance may de facto be prevented by measures of enforcement of the sanction. If this party therefore fails to perform its obligations, its contracting partner may decide to initiate legal proceedings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silveira, M.

Da Silveira, Mercedeh Azeredo

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Zivilprozess- und Schiedsverfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.

List of Figures.

List of Abbreviations.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART I Sanctions and Contracts Considered.

CHAPTER 1 International Trade Sanctions.

CHAPTER 2 International Sales Contracts.

PART II Trade Sanctions as Statutes that May Be Taken into Account for the Resolution of a Contractual Dispute.

CHAPTER 3 Characterization of Trade Sanctions in a Private Law Perspective.

CHAPTER 4 Authority of Domestic Courts and Arbitral Tribunals to Give Effect to Trade

Sanctions.

CHAPTER 5 Circumstances in Which a Trade Sanction May Be Given Effect.

CHAPTER 6 Relevance of the Lex Contractus.

PART III Trade Sanction as a Ground for Exemption from Liability for Non-performance.

CHAPTER 7 Trade Sanctions as Legal Impediments to Performance.

CHAPTER 8 Rights and Obligations of the Parties If the Obligor Is Exempted from Liability for Non-performance.

CHAPTER 9 Rights of the Obligee If the Obligor Delivers a Substitute to Avoid the Prohibition.

PART IV Risk of Penalty for Breach of a Sanction as a Ground for Renegotiation or a Court-Ordered Adaptation of the Contract.

CHAPTER 10 No Exemption Possible on Grounds of Increased Onerousness.

CHAPTER 11 Adaptation of the Contract on Grounds of Hardship.

CHAPTER 12 Part III Revisited in the Light of Part IV: Remedies Available If the Cost of Avoiding a Trade Sanction Is Excessive.

Conclusions.

Bibliography.

Table of Arbitral Awards.

Table of Court Decisions.

Index.

Table of Contents.