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§5.1 General
“A sales transaction may be regarded (at the extremes) either as a duel fought with deadly weapons or as a relationship calling for cooperation and accommodation. The latter, of course, is the attitude of persons engaged in commerce.”
To give the non-performing party an opportunity to cure is obviously a reflection of this latter attitude. It is not new in international trade.3 Most national laws recognize in some form a defaulting party’s right to cure a non-performance.

A contractual party’s right to cure a non-performance under the condition that such cure does not create any — or at least any excessive — hardship for the aggrieved party, has emerged from Common Law traditions to become almost a staple of modern contract law [emphasis added], and of modern sales law in particular.

Even many of those legal systems that do not have a rule permitting cure would normally take a reasonable offer of cure into account in assessing damages.
Under the Convention, two categories of cure are available to the non-performing party: one is to make a new and conforming tender ...