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### Private International Law Conventions to Which the United States Is a Party

        - International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading for the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hague Rules) (1924)
        - United Nations Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods (1974), as amended by the Protocol of 1980
        - United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 1980)
        - UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (2001)
        - UNIDROIT/ICAO Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (2001)
        - Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary (2006)

### Private International Law Conventions for Which U.S. Ratification/Accession Is Under Consideration

        - United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit (New York, 1995)
        - United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (New York, 2001)
        - United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (New York, 2005)
        - United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (New York, 2008)  (the “Rotterdam Rules”) 
        - Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Mining, Agricultural and Construction Equipment
        - United Nations Convention on International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships (the Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sales of Ships)

### Other Private International Law Conventions

        - Protocol to Amend the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading for the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hague-Visby Rules) (1968)
        - United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg, 1978) (the “Hamburg Rules”) 
        - UNIDROIT Convention on International Financial Leasing (1988)
        - UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring (1988)
        - United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes (New York, 1988)
        - United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade (Vienna, 1991)
        - UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (1995)
        - Luxembourg Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock (2007)
        - UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities (2009)
        - Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Space Assets (2012)

### Other Private International Law Instruments

        - UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers (1992)
        - UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (1994)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on ElectroniUNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce (1996) with additional article 5 bis as adopted in 1998
        - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency (1997)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures with Guide to Enactment (2001)
        - OAS Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions (2002)
        - UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law
        - UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions (2007)
        - UNIDROIT Guide to International Master Franchise Arrangements (2007)
        - UNIDROIT Model Law on Leasing (2008)
        - UNCITRAL Practice Guide on Cross-Border Insolvency Cooperation (2009)
        - OAS Model Registry Regulations (2009)
        - UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions: Supplement on Security Rights in Intellectual Property (2010)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement (2011)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency: the Judicial Perspective (2011)
        - Guide to Enactment of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement (2011)
        - UNIDROIT — Consideration of draft principles regarding the enforceability of close-out netting provisions
        - UNCITRAL Guide on the Implementation of a Security Rights Registry (2013)
        - UNIDROIT Legal Guide on Contract Farming (2015)
        - Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts (2015)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (2016)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (2017)
        - UNIDROIT Legislative Guide on Intermediated Securities (2017)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions: Guide to Enactment (2017)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Recognition and Enforcement of Insolvency-Related Judgments (2018)
        - UNCITRAL Practice Guide to the Model Law on Secured Transactions (2019)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on Enterprise Group Insolvency with Guide to Enactment (2019)
        - UNCITRAL Model Law on the Use and Cross-border Recognition of Identity Management and Trust Services (2022)

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