In the case of JetCorp selling airplanes to a purchaser in France with no specified payment terms, which law will most likely control?

The situation described involves an international sale of goods, specifically airplanes sold from JetCorp to a purchaser in France. The most appropriate legal framework governing such transactions is the Convention on International Sales of Goods (CISG). The CISG was created to provide a uniform international law that facilitates trade across borders by addressing the formation of contracts and the rights and obligations of buyers and sellers in international transactions.

The CISG applies automatically to contracts for the sale of goods between parties whose places of business are in different countries that have ratified or adopted the convention, which includes both the United States and France. Since the payment terms are not specified, the CISG provides relevant provisions that govern such scenarios, including mechanisms for determining payment and performance obligations.

Other options are less applicable in this context. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) primarily deals with trade policies and tariffs rather than contractual obligations between parties. The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), particularly Article 2, governs sales of goods within the United States but is not applicable to international transactions where parties are in different countries. The French code of sales law would likely apply if the transaction was exclusively domestic under French jurisdiction, but since the seller is based in the U.S. and the buyer is