On The Supplementary Function Of The Interpretation Of The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods In The General Principles Of International Commercial Contracts

United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods,hereafter referred as CISG,is an international treaty which was drafted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law(UNCITRAL)and adopted during a Diplomatic Conference in Vienna in 1980.After the number of states depositing instruments of ratification met legal requirements in 1988,CISG came into force.As an international treaty,under certain circumstances provided by itself,CISG could be the applicable law during international sale of goods.However,as the product of compromise by many states,many prescriptions are of principle,which increase the difficulty of application.For the benefit of normal International commercial activities,interpretation of CISG is necessary.From the perspective of damages,this paper focuses on the function of Principles of International Commercial Contracts(hereafter referred as PICC)in interpreting CISG.PICC was compiled and published by International Institute for the Unification of Private Law,hereafter referred as UNIDROIT in 1994,and amended separately in 2004,2010 and 2016.PICC is not an international treaty but an important unification instrument of international commercial contracts.This paper will analyze the interpretation methods of CISG prescribed by itself first,and discuss PICC’s legal nature of “general principles” afterward.Based on these two chapters,this paper provides general steps for the interpretation of CISG.The work talked before is seldom referred by other writers,which is an innovation of this paper.In the following chapter,this paper will analyze some detailed contents about damages for breach based on precedent works of other writers.