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Students and people new to the trade

You are studying or newly working and you want to understand origin, customs and transport through real examples rather than definitions. This page orders the articles from easy to hard, with a glossary and a set of worked cases. Read it through and you will be able to read a C/O file and see where it usually goes wrong.

The articles below are listed in the recommended reading order.

  1. Delivery terms and the point risk passes: where the contract says one thing and practice does another
  2. Interactive Incoterms 2020 table: pick a term, see who bears what
  3. Volume and volumetric weight calculator: why every carrier quotes a different figure
  4. The import document set: six places it goes out of line and what each one costs
Scope of this content

I have been trained as a lawyer under the lawyer training programme for international integration at the Judicial Academy, but I do not yet hold a lawyer's practising certificate, so the content here is professional information shared with citations to the governing legal documents, not legal advice on any specific case.