Full Description
This practical and comprehensive guide to the business and legal aspects of electronic data interchange (EDI) traces the history of EDI agreements, analyzes the business and legal issues involved and provides strategies for drafting specific agreements for international use. It also includes many excerpts from the model EDI agreements from different countries, and the complete text of both English and French agreements, enabling the reader to examine the legal differences in EDI from diffreent cultures. The guide is suitable for businessmen, practitioners, scholars and everyone with an interest in EDI.
Contents
Part 1 The use of electronic data interchange in commercial practice: defining electronic data interchange; uses of EDI in commercial transactions. Part 2 The evolution and use of interchange agreements: emergence of interchange agreements; early interchange agreements; challenges to international trade in the current environment. Part 3 The negotiation and drafting of an interchange agreement: the role of interchange agreements; reasons for interchange agreements; selection of an appropriate model; how to begin. Part 4 The issues of interchange agreements: coverage and role of interchange agreements; selected business issues; selected legal issues. Part 5 Adaptation of model agreements for special purposes: administrative uses; multiple commercial parties; electronic funds transfers. Part 6 Future Developments: the limitations of interchange agreements; future international developments. Appendix: selected model agreements.
