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Logistics and delivery
Incoterms, transport, shipment weeks and storage: the part of a deal where price meets reality.
6 articles
Incoterms 2020: delivery bases in plain words
Incoterms 2020 in plain words: all 11 terms in a table, who pays for carriage and insurance, where risk passes and what to write in an exchange order.
FOB: what it means and where the seller's responsibility ends
The FOB delivery basis: what the term means, who pays for freight and insurance, at what point the risk passes and when FOB must not be chosen.
FCA, CPT, CIP: transitional delivery terms
FCA, CPT and CIP: where risk passes, who pays for carriage and insurance, and how these bases differ from EXW, FOB and CIF.
EXW: collection from the seller's warehouse
EXW delivery terms explained: the buyer's obligations, where the risk passes, and why FCA is more often used instead of EXW in an international trade.
DDP: the seller is responsible all the way to the buyer's warehouse
DDP delivery terms: what falls within the seller's obligations, who pays duties and taxes, where risk passes and when this basis benefits a buyer of rolled steel.
CIF: price with delivery and insurance
CIF delivery terms: what the price includes, who pays freight and insurance, where risk passes and how CIF differs from FOB and CIP.
What we write about
Ten sections. Each one is where a question actually comes up in a deal or in working with metal, not where a keyword happens to sit.
- Grades and materials17 articles
- Weight and calculation5 articles
- Standards5 articles
- Machining5 articles
- Applications6 articles
- Customs and HS codes12 articles
- Logistics and delivery6 articles
- Exchange and deals6 articles
- Market4 articles
- Buying and selling6 articles