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The Commission on Commercial Law and Practice (CLP) facilitates international trade and promotes a fair and balanced self-regulatory and regulatory legal framework for international business-to-business (B2B) transactions.

Incoterms® 2010: New edition of renowned trade rules now available to order

Paris, 29 June 2010

Continuing a long tradition of providing the global trading community with the most up-to-date trade tools, ICC is preparing to launch the Incoterms® 2010 rules. Today, ICC has announced it is now accepting preorders for the revised Incoterms rules, which will come into effect on 1 January 2011.

ICC launches seminar on model turnkey contracts in construction
Paris, 24 September 2008 On the one-year anniversary of the creation of the model turnkey contract, ICC is holding its first half-day seminar at the Paris Secretariat on how the contract can help smooth transactions in the construction industry.

ICC urges governments to ratify Hague Choice of Court Convention
Paris, 18 October 2007 Today the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) began sending letters to the Ministers of Justice around the world urging countries to join the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements. The Convention was adopted by consensus by the Twentieth Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law on 30 June 2005 but is not yet in effect.

Global sourcing made easy for small business
Paris, 17 April 2007 The International Chamber of Commerce today has published ICC Legal Handbook on Global Sourcing Contracts, the first comprehensive handbook to help small- and medium-sized companies navigate this process internationally.

Strong Nordic business support for UN convention
Copenhagen, 4 February 2005 Businesses in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have joined forces through ICC to urge their governments to fully ratify an international trade convention.

Business hails Hague jurisdictional treaty draft
Paris, 29 August 2003 The International Chamber of Commerce today said a draft treaty governing jurisdiction in cross-border business contract disputes was shaping up to give a boost to trade.

World poll puts Internet jurisdiction under scrutiny
San Francisco, USA, 7 August 2003 Is the Internet being stifled as a business medium by the constant tug-of-war over which country's law applies when disputes arise?

Jurisdictional certainty is essential in international contracts
Paris, 2 April 2003 An unexpectedly large proportion of companies are dissuaded from going ahead with international contracts because of doubts about which national courts would resolve any dispute, an ICC survey disclosed today.