Tuesday, 2 November 2010

The Negotiable Instument Law

Negotiable instruments thru law
Bills of Lading as negotiable instruments law.

A bill of lading is very frequently entitled a negotiable instrument. However ,even though it does acquire some of the superioritys of negotiability , it is not severely one self-governing of decree. The bill of lading may be classified to be a written acknowledgement by a regular carrier of the receipt of convinced goods explained there. Moreover, an agreement is for shipping them to their place of destination  to be there transported in good order to the consignee or his consigns. Hence , a dual character, being both a receipt and contract for the carriage of goods. As a receipt ,it has become, under the power of commercial norm, a icon of property and exceeds title to the goods by delivery in the same mode as if the goods were themselves delivered[1].
I believe that the bill of lading is also a carriage’s contract ,otherwise, it is  a  proof of carriage’s contract .However, If the bill of lading is negotiable, as regularly occurs in carriage by sea, it can have power over goods’s ownership  .Moreover it is one of the essential articles in the financing’s movement of commodities and merchandise.




[1] C.E. Chadman,Cyclopedia of Law,(Charleston, no date)153-154

International Commercial Transaction




International commercial transactions

            A business management incoming into an international commercial transaction is primarily involved in drafting an contract that satisfies all of the parties and that will be executed as swear. The prospect of recital is the first rule of contract negotiation and drafting. Business’s  People have hardly ever gone into a business transaction assuming which the contract will be never performed or that one or more of the parties will infringe some feature of the agreement .Certainly, many if not most business transactions, both household and international, are entirely and peacefully performed by the parties[1].
            The code also imitates a essential thought in contract negotiation  which parties sign contracts because of doing business, not because of debating each other in court or in an a arbitration hearing after their party violates their contract[2].

The legislation concerning for international commercial transactions such as
1.)     1980 ICC Incoterms  >>is The International Chamber of Commerce.
 International  trade terms are mainly intended to describe the scheme of delivery of the goods sold. Nevertheless, regularly used for a further principle, specifically to point out the estimate of the purchase cost .
 Especially , the minor charges incorporated in that. It was obvious that the obtainable deflect of analysis was a stable source of resistance in international trade , directing to the improbability of the diverse analysis of the same terms in different countries[3].It is in a sales contract classify evidently the parties’ respective compulsion and decreases the hazard of legal impediments.[4]
2.)   1974 UN Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods,together with its 1980 Protocool,[5]
3.)    1980 Vienna sale Convention[6], and
4.)   1983 UNCITRAL Liquidated Damages and Penalty Clauses.
>>It is Uniform Rules on Contract Clauses for an Agreed Sum due up Failure of Performance. Commercial contracts regularly have clauses as long as for the payment by a party of a particular sum of money as harms or as a punishment in the event of the failure of the party to complete its contractual obligations.However, then common law and civil law structures have very dissimilar approaches to the validity and application of these clauses[7].


[1] W Fox,International Commercial Agreement,(Bedfordshire 2009) 2-3
[2] W Fox, (n1) 4-5
[3] C-J Cheng, Basic Documents on Internationl Trade Law   (2nd edn, London ,1990) 89
[4] ICC official rules for the interpretation of trade terms : entry into force 1st January 2000
[5] C-J Cheng, (n3) 123-138
[6] C-J Cheng, (n3) 141-142
[7] C-J Cheng, (n3) 170

Monday, 25 October 2010

Carriage of dangerous goods by sea

Carriage of  dangerous goods by sea
Goods ‘s transportation is essential to international sale of goods[1] .The carriage of dangerous goods by sea, since the a few of  dangerous goods were carried by sea until the part of 19th century.The unique  rules had not been regarded as a necessary.Therefore,the first noticeable reference to rule realting with dangerous goods arise in the British Merchant Shipping Act,1894[2].
In addition , around the world increase gradually an accident from movement of carriage of dangerous goods by sea. It has more risk such as explosions ,pollution, container ships, spillages and potential danger as well[3].
The regulation in the particular of this carriage will reduce the risk.For example ,the special rules of carriage contracts which will issue a regulation in security concern as dangerous goods could be mechanism for terrorist attacks[4].





[1] I Carr, International Trade Law   (3rd edn, London ,2005) 116

[2]M.D. Guner-Ozbek,The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Sea (Turkey,2007) 5

[3]M.D. Guner-Ozbek,(n2) 5
[4] M.D. Guner-Ozbek,(n3) 6

This clip's video doesn't relate with this Agency directly but It relate with the method and how to carriage dangerous goods by sea such as they showed that they will seperate the dangerous goods by dividing the container and also use a differnt label on there before they load at ship .Therefore, this law will indicate the rule for carriage dangerous goods by sea .



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Thursday, 21 October 2010

‘Is Fairtrade fair? the case for and against the establishment of Fairtrade initiatives’.









First of all , Fairtrade initiatives as an mechanism which permit the poor people who come from developing country to cooperate as a corporation in their country for entering the global market in order to selling their commodities such as coffee or other organic goods under the condition of Fairtrade label.They will gain advantage from this organization and also their commodities can export to ‘market niche’ in Europe and North America[1].
Next,Fairtrade have imposed criterion for guarantee that almost parties are engaging in the plan  in a trustworthy and voluntary method .It can show that with FLO(Fairtrade Label Organisation) establishing inadequately imposeed standards from deliberate decrees to regulation, the legality of fair-trade demoralized[2].

However  , Fairtrade is as  a voluntary for consumer-driven campaign which is  a free market system for them as a mechanisms for processed commodities.It cannot be dislike to this free market[3].

Besides,  Fairtrade does not issue the root causes of poverty.  Some economists claimed that low prices for basic commodities  ; for example ,coffee that result from oversupply. Furthermore  ,Fairtrade also does not guarantee access to investment or technology because of having only a tiny volume of the world trade relative to the total volume[4].
In Addition,  poor people of developing world will get  more profit margin. Fairtrade also pay a price to  farmers for a higher than market price  After that it can occur  overproduction . They concern only to the plight of poor farmers ,farm workers, and producers in developing countries[5] .
Ultimately, Fairtrade producers can progress their global level economy by training and the improvement of associations based on reliance and cooperation as well[6].


[1] G Fridell , Fair Trade Coffee (The prospects and pitfalls of market-driven social justice, Toronto, 2007) 85
[2] K Macdonald and S Marshall,Fair Trade, Corporate Accountability and Beyond   (Experiment in globalizing Justice.Australia,2007) 132
[3] K Macdonald and S Marshall (n3) 132
[4] Schaffer , Agusti and Earle, International Business Law and Environment (7th edn, South-Western 2009,2005) 430
[5] Schaffer , Agusti and Earle (n5) 430
[6] G Fridell (n1) 85-86



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