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Commercial law is the body of law that governs the broad and sometimes vague areas of business, consumer transaction, and commerce. With commercial law around, it was able to make way for the development of specific laws regarding any commercial transactions, activities and pursuits. Among the things that commercial law deals with include those simple and difficult issues that are often associated with private and public sector laws. Also, commercial law would also be concerned with sales and distribution of goods and any transactions made for payment,

There are a lot of nations in the international scope that do their business in accordance to the civil codes that were based on commercial law. In the United States (US), commercial law is regulated by Congress under the power granted to it to regulate interstate commerce, and by state governments under jurisdiction of police power. United States adopted its commercial law from the 17th century law merchant principles. Numerous attempts were made by the United States to make a unified commercial law and one of them is through the passing of the UCC or the Uniform Commercial Code.

Many consumers fund commercial law of great interest as it is closely related to consumer law. In fact, in the United States the consumer credit industry is controlled by the commercial part of the statutory law. Credit is an important part of business transaction as it allows consumers to purchase something at pays it over time instead of having to pay the full amount at the moment the transaction was made. To date, the widely used form of credit patronized by consumers worldwide is the credit card. Individuals, businesses, and banks also provide this financing through mortgages and various loans.

Since credit has become a widespread phenomenon, eleven states in Guam and in the United States has passed the Uniform Consumer Credit Code (UCCC)  in order to increase protection of consumers in terms of the transactions, availability of credit and fair practice on the part of the credit industry. Federally, the Consumer Credit Protection Act was passed to regulate the consumer credit industry. However, it has extended to offer help even in the areas of discrimination in terms of giving credit to consumers and the fair practice of getting payment collections.

The growing of international trade has made international commercial law surge. As shown in the international survey of attorneys made by International Bar Association and Lexi Nexis, it shows that there is a need to make unite or harmonize commercial international law codes. It revealed that though legal practice is still mainly domestic, there is a convergence of laws in the areas of trade and investment. Surveyed attorneys from eight nations agreed that some standardization on an international level of trade and investment law would be of great benefit to international trade.

The European Union (EU) has made this harmonization of private law essential in its goal of development of its own internal market. To support this notion, any countries wishing to join the EU needs to sign an agreement and make statutes, rules and regulations that would further help to harmonize international commercial laws. Another way to achieve this is to do some adoption and ratification of treaties that is concerned with commercial law. It is the United Nations (UN) Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) that is the most recognized treaty in this aspect. Still, there are a lot of other methods used to harmonize and control both international and domestic commercial law, and with the continuous growth of international trade, coming up with new ways for this harmonization may be very important.

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