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Chapter 6 Terms of Commodity Case study Key points: Package and Labels. Capacity, Net weight, Recipe, Origin, Instruction, Expiry date, Size of cans CISG: 联合国国际货物买卖合同公约 Mistakes of the seller Definition of Commodity Goods, Merchandise, Product Primary product and raw material Trade condition of commodity include: name, quality, quantity, packing, inspection 6.1 Name of commodity To be specific Widely accepted name 6.2 Quality of commodity Harder to define (1)Different meaning (2)Different standard (3)Difficult to communicate Quality definition in foreign trade (1)Sales by sample (2)By specification (3)By Grade or standard (4)By brand or trademark (5)By description (6)By drawing or diagram Sales by sample (1)Taken from a whole lot (2)Representative samples, original samples, type samples (3)Keeping duplicated samples (4)Sale by seller’s or buyer’s sample (return or counter sample) (5)Elastic clause: quality to be about equal to the sample, quality to be similar to the sample (6)Sealed sample Sales by specification, grade, standard (1)Specification include: composition, contend, purity, strength, size (2)Example of sesame seed (3)Commodities with Different specification may be classified into different grades (4)Example of tungsten (5)Standards mean grades laid down by governments (6)Standards are changing (7)Note the publication of the standard (8)Example of P72 (9)Fair average quality, good merchantable quality Sales by brand or trademark Sales by description, drawing or diagram 6.4 Quantity of commodity Less or excessive quantity Example of P75 Unit of measurement (1)Measures system: metric system, the British system, the U.S. system (2)Example of ton (3)Units of measurement Calculation of weight Gross weight (package weight) Net weight: actual tare, average tare, customary, computed tare Gross for net Conditioned weight Theoretical weight More or less clause “5000 metric tons, 5% more or less at seller’s option” 6.4 Packing of commodity Product De