International Business Law and Transactions: Agency Websites

Tracing its origins to the League of Nations, UNIDROIT is an autonomous international organization active in the harmonization of private international law. The site includes full text and status information concerning UNIDROIT Conventions.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business.

The Hague Conference is an intergovernmental organization with the purpose "to work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law" The principal method used to achieve this purpose consists of the negotiation and drafting of multilateral treaties (conventions) in the different fields of private international law.

ICC is the world business organization, the only representative body that speaks with authority on behalf of enterprises from all sectors in every part of the world. ICC promotes an open international trade and investment system and the market economy. Although ICC rules are voluntary, they are observed in countless thousands of transactions every day and have become part of the fabric of international trade. ICC also provides essential services, foremost among them the ICC International Court o