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... CISG provisions regarding buyer’s and seller’s breach. These rules provide the basis of Convention liability; they are the very source of the buyer’s and seller’s respective rights to claim damages for breach.” CISG Arts. 45(1) and 61(1) further provide that the aggrieved party may “claim damages as provided in articles 74 to 77,” which specifically deal with “the crucially important issue of damages.”

Regarding these specific rules of damages, several points should be made clear before beginning a detailed discussion:
(i) The claim for damages under CISG Arts. 74 et seq. is available to either party to the contract, seller or buyer, but only to them; a third person injured may claim damages only under the applicable domestic law.
(ii) Although one may argue that these damage provisions are exhaustive in that they exclude recourse to domestic law, they “concern only the extent or the measurement of damages, the question being ‘how much’ compensation the injured party should receive; in other words Articles 74 to 77 operate on the assumption that the breaching party is liable on the basis of either Article 45(1) or 61(1).”