Franco Ferrari deals with the conflict between an autonomous interpretation
of the CISG and a homeward trend in its interpretation (touched upon also by Magnus). As the CISG stands (Article 7(1)), there cannot be any possible scope for a homeward trend (though Magnus suspects it might exist in the filling of gaps further to Article 7(2)), as Ferrari conclusively demonstrates. But, as he also makes clear, the homeward trend is often a matter of falling into comfortable patterns of domestic legal thinking without the realisation, say, that reasonable foreseeability and fitness for purpose should not be assumed by a common law
judge to have the same meaning under the CISG as they have in domestic law.