Documents Supplement for Global Business Law: Principles and Practices

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1 University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Law Faculty Publications School of Law 1999 Documents Supplement for Global Business Law: Principles and Practices David Frisch University of Richmond, Follow this and additional works at: Part of the International Law Commons Recommended Citation David Frisch & Raj Bhala., Global Business Law: Principles and Practices (Supp. 1999). This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact

2 David Frisch Professor of Law Widener University, Wilmington, Delaware Raj Bhala Professor of Law The George Washington University Washington, D.C. Carolina Academic Press Durham, North Carolina

3 Copyright 1999 David Frisch and Raj Bhala All Rights Reserved. ISBN LCCN 99- CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS 700 Kent Street Durham, North Carolina Telephone (919) Fax(919) Printed in the United States of America.

4 Acknowledgments 1 Contract Law Materials 3 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) 3 Contracting CISG States Listed at ( x_boo/x10.html) (visited September 15, 1998) 25 Uniform Commerical Code, Article 2, with Comments (1998) 31 Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts 190 United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods By Sea 1978 (commonly known as the Hamburg Rules) 214 The International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law to Bills of Lading and Protocol of Signature, Brussels, 1924 (commonly known as the Hague Rules) Selected GATT-WTO Materials 241 The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as Amended, Including Notes and Supplementary Provisions (30 October 1947) Selected NAFTA Chapters 345 North American Free Trade Agreement 345 Chapter 10: Government Procurement (1993) 345 Chapter 11: Investment, Services and Related Matters 364 Chapter 15: Competition Policy, Monopolies and State Enterprises 382 Chapter 17: Intellectual Property OECD Materials 405 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Convention on combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, and Commentaries on the Convention (1997) (posted at visited 23 January 1998) 405 Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (1976, with Commentary) 27-50, 59, (1994) 417 The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Second Revised Decision of the Council 434 v

5 Vl TABLE OF CASES Payments Laws International Chamber of Commerce, Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP 500) (1993) 437 New York Uniform Commercial Code Article 5, with Official Comments (1998) 462 United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, United Nations, Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit (1996) 479 Explanatory Note by the UNCITRAL Secretariat on the United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit 13-19, (1996) 488 United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Model Law on International Credit Transfers, U.N. Doc. No. NCN.9/XXV/CRP.1/Add.13 (14 May 1992) 496 American Law Institute & National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Uniform Commercial Code, Article 4A: Funds Transfers (1989 Official Text), with Official Comments The Restatement on Foreign Relations 581 Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Sections , , 421, 431, , , , ,823 (1987) United Nations Materials 643 United Nations Resolution on Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural Resources, U.N. General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII) 14 December 1962, U.N. Document/Ares/1803 (XVII) (19 December. 1962) (Also reprinted in 2 INT'L LEGAL MATERIALS 223 (1963)) 643 United Nations Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3201 (S-VI) (9 May 1974) (Also reprinted in 13 lnt'l LEGAL MATERIALS 715 (1974)) 645 United Nations Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3281 (XXIX), 12 December1974, U.N. Document Nres/3281 (XXIX) (15 January 1975) (Also reprinted in 14 lnt'l LEGAL MATERIALS 251 (1975)) 649 United Nations, Proposed Text of the Draft Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, U.N. Doc. No. E/1990/94 (12 June 1990) (Not Adopted) 660 Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises 3, 7-8, 11-14, (1994) (Report on the Guidelines) 673 United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, General Assembly Resolution 217(III)(A) (1948), U.N. GAOR, 3rd Sess., Pt. I Resolutions, at 71, U.N. Doc. N810 (Adopted 10 December 1948) 684 UNCITRAL, Legal Guide on International Countertrade Transactions, Doc. No. Ncn.9/ser.b/3, Sales No. E.93.V.7 (1993) 690

6 TABLE OF CASES Vil 8 United States Laws Alien Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. Section Antitrust Statutes, Title 15, U.S.C. (Various Sections) 707 Carriage of Goods by Sea Act of 1936, 46 U.S.C Exon-Florio Amendment, 50 U.S.C. App Federal Bills of Lading Act, 49 U.S.C Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, 15 U.S.C. Sections 78dd-1, 78dd-2, 78 (as amended) 746 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, As Amended, 28 U.S.C. Sections Genocide, 18 U.S.C. Section The Harter Act of 1893, 46 U.S.C Second Hickenlooper Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 961, As Amended (22 U.S.C et seq.), 22 U.S.C. Section 2370(e)(2) 767 Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, 28 U.S.C. Section 1350 and Section 1350 Note 768 States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Enforcement Guidelines for International Operations (April 1995) 768 United States Department of State, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Prototype of a Bilateral Investment Treaty (Bit) With the U.S., (released June 1996) ("MODEL BIT") Other Materials 795 Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund, Second Amendment, 30 April 1976, 29 U.S.T. 2203, T.I.A.S. No The Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters, 23 U.S.T. 2555, T.I.A.S. No. 7444, 847 U.N.T.S. 241 (done at The Hague 18 March 1970; entered into force for the United States 7 October 1972) 795 International Labor Organization, Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (Adopted 16 November 1977) (Also reprinted in 17 INT'L LEGAL MATERIALS 422 (January 1978)) 803 The United Kingdom Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 (Chapter 11) 814

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