Schmitthofff's Export Trade (The Law and Practice of International Trade) by Professor Clive M Schmitthoff

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Schmitthoff's Export Trade (The Law and Practice of International Trade) by Professor Clive M Schmitthoff Published by Stevens & Sons, London (1986, lix and 689 pp., incl. Contents, Index and Tables of Cases, Statutes and Conventions) Hardback £32. Also available in Softcover. To have reached the 8th edition under the original author over 38 years is surely a reflection of a certain measure of success in any work. Schmitthoff's Export Trade has occupied a unique position in the bibliography available to commercial lawyers during this period and for many years was the only work on English law devoted to International Trade. It is still the only work which seeks to give a comprehensive view of English law and of transnational rules recognised by English law relating to the export trade. The layout of the text is subjected to relatively few basic changes from several past editions. Approximately the first 30% of the text is devoted to a general consideration of international sales and includes, as well as basic concepts of offer and acceptance, problems of performance, frustration and conflicts, a review of the well trodden paths of standard trade terms and the attempts at the standardisation of such terms by international agreement and by International Convention. This first section of the work includes particularly useful and practical chapters on invoicing and packaging of goods and on marketing information for exporters. The text then proceeds to examine marketing organisations abroad in the private context. Despite the obvious challenge to analyse the legal regimes of multi-nationals and the effect of their activities on …