Abstract
The author claims that the Swiss project of law for the introduction of trusts within the local Code on obligations is a proposal mainly addressed to foreign clients, rather than the persons residing in Switzerland, so to market a new peculiar product outside the Swiss soil. The paper offers a series of clues proving fulfilment of this purpose. The paper also discloses some of the various issues that could arise, within a civil law system, if a law of (pure) domestic private law on trusts would be placed side by side a law on trusts in force that makes reference to the Hague Convention on trusts.