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Date: 24.10.1989 Country: USA Number: 87-02-00404 Court: U.S. Court of International Trade Parties: Orbisphere Corp. v. United States

In deciding a case relating to a sales contract concluded in 1983, the court noted in a footnote that for international contracts for the sale of goods between U.S. parties and foreign parties concluded on or after 1 January 1989 [1988], the applicable commercial law is not the Uniform Commercial Code but rather the CISG, unless expressly contracted out of by the parties (Art. 6 CISG).