The present article discusses the role of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (‘CISG’) in influencing or “setting standards” for other commercial law conventions. Dr. Schroeter looks at this question from multiple perspectives. He considers CISG’s Articles on interpretation, applicability, ‘gap-filing’, rights and obligations of parties, among others, being adopted by conventions. His verdict on the influence of the CISG differs for each Part of the convention. He also discusses why he believes the CISG has attained such a “standard-setting” role. Continuing from this discussion, he debates whether the CISG, quite contrarily, may be an obstacle to the further unification of international commercial law. He recommends that this unification should be furthered by interpreting the CISG and supplementary conventions (possibly) but preserving its status as “the core international commercial law convention”.