Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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MALIK CO. v. CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADING AGENCY LTD. CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADING AGENCY LTD. v. INDUSTRIE CHIMICHE ITALIA CENTRALE S.P.A.

[1974] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 279

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Kerr

Sale of goods (c.i.f.) - Export licence - Licence required for export of seeds from the Sudan - Duty of seller to take reasonable steps to obtain licence - Licence refused by Sudanese Ministry of Economics - Goods never shipped - Whether sellers could plead "prohibition of export" clause to relieve them from liability - Whether sellers had taken reasonable steps to obtain licence - Incorporated Oil Seed Association contract no. 67.

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