The ICC Model Contract on Distributorship provides a uniform contractual framework which incorporates the prevailing practice of international trade.
But one of the difficulties that traders face when drawing up contracts is the lack of uniform regulations.This means that parties must refer primarily to the rules set out in their agreements, which in turn makes the careful drafting of such contracts vital. Almost every company engaged in international trade has some distributors abroad, which means that most exporters will be faced with drafting an international distributorship agreement at some point. Distributorship contracts are one of the most frequently used means for organizing the distribution of goods in a foreign country.
