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The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) was established in 1966 by the UN General Assembly to harmonize and modernize international trade law. It develops frameworks and standards in areas like commercial contracts, transport, insolvency, and electronic commerce to facilitate global trade through inclusive processes involving states and organizations. UNCITRAL coordinates with other organizations and promotes wider acceptance and uniform interpretation of international trade conventions and model laws. It also provides training and technical assistance to developing countries.

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UNCITRAL

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) was established in 1966 by the UN General Assembly to harmonize and modernize international trade law. It develops frameworks and standards in areas like commercial contracts, transport, insolvency, and electronic commerce to facilitate global trade through inclusive processes involving states and organizations. UNCITRAL coordinates with other organizations and promotes wider acceptance and uniform interpretation of international trade conventions and model laws. It also provides training and technical assistance to developing countries.

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The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law is a subsidiary body of the U.N.

General Assembly responsible for helping to facilitate international trade and investment

With the proliferation of global trade in the 1960s, national governments realized there was a need for a
harmonized global set of standards to replace the various national and regional regulations which, until
then, had largely governed international trade. In response to this, the United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), established by the United Nations General Assembly by
resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966 , plays an important role in developing that framework in
pursuance of its mandate to further the progressive harmonization and modernization of the law of
international trade by preparing and promoting the use and adoption of legislative and non-legislative
instruments in a number of key areas of commercial Law. The organization is responsible for
helping to facilitate international trade and investment.

In 1969 it authorized the Secretary-General to establish a Yearbook "which would make the
work of the Commission more widely known and readily available. General Assembly had
responsibility for encouraging "the progressive development of international law and its
codification" and proposing the inclusion on its agenda of an item on "steps to be taken for
progressive development in the field of private international law with a particular view to
promoting international trade." The General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit
a report on the subject, which he did in the following year on the basis of a report by Dr. Clive
M. Schmitthoff, a British authority on the law of international trade and comments by five
experts in the field, one of them an American (Professor Willis L. M. Reese). After debate in the
Sixth (Legal) Committee,8 the General Assembly resolved to establish the Commission, to be
composed of twenty-nine members—seven from Africa, five from Asia, four from Eastern
Europe, five from Latin America, and eight from Western Europe and other states.

The areas it covers include dispute resolution, international contract practices, transport,
insolvency, electronic commerce, international payments, secured transactions, procurement and
sale of goods. These instruments are negotiated through an international process involving a
variety of participants, including member States of UNCITRAL, nonmember States, and invited
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. As a result of this inclusive process,
these texts are widely accepted as offering solutions appropriate to different legal traditions and
to countries at different stages of economic development. In the years since its establishment,
UNCITRAL has been recognized as the core legal body of the United Nations system in the field
of international trade law. Developing countries play an active role in both drafting and adoption
UNCITRAL texts. The commitment of the Commission and the Secretariat to providing training
and technical assistance to those countries is also long-standing and constant.

UNCITRAL gives effect to its mandate by:

(a) Coordinating the work of organizations active in this field and encouraging cooperation
among them.

(b) Promoting wider participation in existing international conventions and wider acceptance
of existing model and uniform laws;

(c) Preparing or promoting the adoption of new international conventions, model laws and
uniform laws

(d) Promoting ways and means of ensuring a uniform interpretation and application of
international conventions and uniform laws in the field of the law of international trade;

(e) Collecting and disseminating information on national legislation and modern legal
developments, including case law, in the field of the law of international trade;

(f) Establishing and maintaining a close collaboration with the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development;

(g) Maintaining liaison with other United Nations organs and specialized agencies concerned
with international trade.

Under these agreements, Members commit to restrictions on their imposition of tariff barriers
(such as import taxes or customs duties) and non-tariff barriers to trade (such as regulatory
measures, quantitative restrictions, and internal tax laws that apply to both domestic and
imported products).

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