The strength of International Trade Law has been its concern to provide solutions to practical problems facing commercial parties involved in the transport of goods between different countries.

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This is a fairly broad question inviting you to identify the problems encountered in international trade and the ways in which the law has tried to deal with them through, for instance cif and fob contracts and the use of documentary credits. It is challenging in that there is potentially a lot of material that might be included and the student needs to identify some key issues and the legal solution to those issues in order to illustrate the more general point