I contratti di finanziamento non tipicamente bancari e il credito all'esportazione

This research aims to give a legal analysis of some agreements which are widespread in international trade to finance and to facilitate exports. With the exception of some restricted area, they are not ruled by the Italian law, so that the interpreters have to face to the issue about the types they belong to and abut their regulation. The first part of this work concerns the investigation of the notion of “causa” of the contract through the various attempts to draft a uniform code of the law of the contract, both at an European level and at an international one. In the second part the author deals with the contracts of forfaiting, project financing and international factoring. They are deeply different agreements – which have been sometimes objects of international conventions – that, however, appear connected by a common purpose of financing.