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[单项选择]Miele, the German domestic appliance manufacturer, has been in the UK (21) thirty years.
The company started (22) a small office in central London, a staff of five and a turnover (23) the first 16 months of ￡53,000. Today it has a modern headquarters at Abingdon, near Oxford, employs about 200 people and has a turnover of￡18 million. The British company, (24) the other overseas subsidiaries, is a sales operation. Aangdon is an ideal town (25) the UK headquarters. It is very central as a distribution point and only five miles north (26) the "inland port" of Milton.
The Miele group employs 13,500 people worldwide. (27) it is still a family concern. "There is regular contact (28) headquarters in Gutersloh, Germany," says Herr Wedekind, chief executive of the British subsidiary.
The group sells (29) products to up-market customers in shops like Harrods and advertises in publications li
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[简答题]Axel is a German manufacturer who uses hydrochloric acid in his manufacturing process. In January 2010 he entered into a contract with Boris, a Russian wholesaler of chemicals, for the supply of 100 tonnes of hydrochloric acid to be delivered to his factory in Germany by 1 April. In March Boris found out that his supplier, the company, which actually manufactured the acid, was engaged in a long-standing industrial dispute and would not be able to supply the acid.
When Boris failed to deliver the acid by the agreed date Axel was forced to buy an alternative supply of acid to keep his production process operating. The cost of the replacement acid was considerably higher than the price agreed in the contract with Boris. As a result Axel intends suing Boris for breach of contract, claiming compensation for damages, consisting of the difference between the price of the acid established in the contract and the price at which he was obliged to purchase the acid from the third party. Boris
[简答题]Ax, a Swedish manufacturer, contacted Bo, a German manufacturer, to enquire about Bo making special screws of a particularly high quality.Bo provided by return a list of prices and delivery periods.Ax then ordered 3,000 screws and also 3,000 specialised nuts and bolts, not mentioned before.Bo requested payment in advance or a letter of credit. Ax, in turn, asked for a pro-forma invoice.When Bo sent the invoice it listed screws of a lower quality than the original specification with their respective prices.Ax objected immediately and demanded delivery of the articles in the ‘ordered’ quality. Bo agreed to delivery of higherquality articles but insisted on a higher price than on the invoice. Ax insisted on delivery of the higher-quality items but for the price listed in the invoice.Required:Advise the parties whether or not they have entered into a binding contractual agreement on the basis of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. (10 marks)
[简答题]Axel, a German furniture manufacturer, ordered 2,000 metres (m) of a particularly high quality coloured cloth from Beni, an Italian cloth manufacturer. 1,000 m of the cloth was to be red and the other 1,000 m green. When the cloth was delivered Axel found that the green cloth had been replaced by blue cloth.
In spite of the change in the colour Axel used all the cloth without informing Beni and managed to sell all the furniture covered with it at its usual price. However he refused to pay Beni the full contractual price for the blue cloth as it was not what he had ordered.
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Assuming that the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods applies, explain the rights and liabilities of the parties involved. (10 marks)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel won over German voters in the Federal Election on Sept. 27. Can she now be won over by a French charm offensive (1) at repairing the relationship that was once at the heart of Europe That’s the question being asked in Paris, (2) top government officials are (3) talking about their desire to rekindle closer ties (4) their neighbors across the Rhine. (5) the end of World War II the Franco-German relationship has been the motor of European integration, the (6) force behind the creation of the European Union and, more recently, the introduction of the euro. But the ardor has (7) in this decade, particularly under Merkel, who has regularly struggled to (8) her irritation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s grandstanding. Sarkozy, (9) , has often been impatient with what he (10) Merkel’s lack of resolve.
The sometimes (11) perso
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B. war
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