As technology and intellectual property rights become increasingly important in today's international business community, more and more companies across the globe are concluding transactions to transfer technology among business entities.  Recognizing the need to provide the marketplace with assistance on this highly technical subject, the International Chamber of Commerce has produced the ICC Model International Transfer of Technology Contract.

Practitioners will welcome this first book containing Banking Commission Opinions on UCP 600, ICC's newly revised rules on documentary credits. These rules  gave rise to queries from banks, lawyers and shippers worldwide, and this latest Opinions book, the first in four years, provides precise answers to the key questions raised.

Fighting Corruption – International Corporate  Integrity Handbook

Corruption has a corrosive impact on international business. Fighting Corruption lays out the problems and offers practical solutions on how to attack commercial dishonesty at its source. 

In the third edition of this highly acclaimed volume, ICC experts offer solutions to combat this scourge of global trade and investment.

IDOCDEX was established by the International Chamber of Commerce in 1997 as a rapid dispute resolution system using panels of ICC experts to render decisions on disputes involving letters of credit. DOCDEX Decisions, normally rendered within 30‒60 days, often allow the disputing parties to avoid lengthy and costly court proceedings. The DOCDEX system was later expanded to cover ICC rules on collections and demand guarantees as well.

Insights into UCP 600 contains almost 70 articles on UCP 600 written for the magazine DCInsight during the five years from 2003 to 2008: 39 articles written prior to the adoption and 30 articles after the adoption of UCP 600. These expert commentaries follow the debate on the main issues in the new UCP from its inception through its final implementation in 2007.

2009 Annual Review of
International Banking Law and Practice

The 2009 Annual Review of International Banking Law and Practice contains all relevant court decisions, statutes and governmental actions related to international banking, letters of credit and trade finance, and it will be an important reference for bankers, lawyers, and academics. It provides the industry's most complete international reporting and analysis of Letter of Credit and Guarantee cases from around the world.

Users’ Handbook for Documentary Credits under UCP 600 is designed to serve as an introduction to users of documentary credits, that is, to sellers and buyers who seek to increase their access to cross-border markets. It strives to demonstrate the way commercial parties and bankers have used this remarkable commercial device, the documentary credit, to achieve their objectives.

Guide to Export-Import
Basics

International trade, a key engine of economic growth, is valued at trillions of dollars each year. But the techniques of how to export and import are often a mystery to business persons and enterprises. The classic text, Guide to Export-Import Basics, now in its third edition, examines the trade tools developed by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to help you make the most of international markets.

Drafting an international contract can be a risky business. Yet with the increasing globalization of markets, these cross-border contracts are becoming a common practice for most traders, as well as for the lawyers assisting them. At the same time, international contracts remain a difficult and mysterious subject for business people as well as their lawyers.

ICC's Uniform Rules for Bank-to-Bank Reimbursements under Documentary Credits (URR) have recently been revised. The revision, ICC Publication No. 725, was necessary to bring these long-standing rules into conformity with UCP 600, ICC's universally used rules on letters of credit, which came into effect on 1 July 2007.

Arbitrators frequently face requests wrongly considered as being of incidental nature. Interest claims in particular raise delicate legal issues and may involve considerable amounts, sometimes exceeding the main claim. So as to guarantee the quick and effective enforcement of awards, the arbitral practice is looking for new approaches, such as lump assessment, “clauses pénales” or judicial penalties (“astreintes”).

The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP), developed by ICC, are rules used by letter of credit practitioners the world over. But most practitioners know very little about the UCP’s creation and how they have developed over the years. The Complete UCP traces the history of the rules from their inception more than 70 years ago through their latest revision, UCP 600, which came into effect on 1 July 2007.

With globalization and the increased volume of international tarde, the legal framework for international transactions has assumed growing importance. 

To avoid disagreements and to ensure the use of uniform rules for international transactions, those key conventions and sets of private rules have been developed to aid practitioners navigate their way through complicated legal requirements of trade transactions.  Treaties and International Documents used in International Trade Law responds to the need for a complete reference source of key trade texts for practitioners and scholars.

More than 15 percent of trade (over $1 trillion a year) is financed using letters of credit. Now universally used, the UCP, as these ICC rules for letter of credit practice are called, are the most successful private rules for commerce ever developed. But rules require interpretation, and courts worldwide have interpreted how the UCP should be applied in daily practice.

Here, in a single volume, the most important court cases interpreting the UCP have been collected, analyzed and explained.