Aston FFI (Suisse) SA v Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse SA – QBD (Comm Ct) (Eder J) [2015] EWHC 80 (Comm) – 23 January 2015

Sale of goods (fob) – Buyer rejecting cargo of milling wheat in bulk – Whether buyer entitled to reject goods – Whether buyer’s nomination of superintending surveyor contractually compliant – Whether buyer entitled to reject goods in absence of contractually compliant quality certificate

By a contract dated 7 October 2011 (the contract) the buyers, Aston FFI (Suisse), purchased from the sellers, Louis Dreyfus, 30,000 mt of Russian milling wheat in bulk.