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The Incoterms® 2010 rules provide for information duties relating
to insurance in articles A3/B3, which deal with contracts of carriage and
insurance.
v) Security related clearances
ICC paid attention to the heightened concern about security in the
movement of goods, requiring verification that the goods do not pose a threat
to life or property for reasons other than their inherent nature in the new
version of Incoterms® 2010
1
. Therefore, ICC have allocated obligations
between the buyer and seller to obtain or to render assistance in obtaining
security-related clearances, such as chain-of-custody information, in
articles A2/B2 and A10/B10 of various Incoterms rules.
vi) Terminal Handling Charges
The Incoterms® 2010 rules seek to avoid multiple payments of
terminal handling charges by the buyer. Under Incoterms 2000 CPT, CIP,
CFR, CIF, DAT, DAP, and DDP, the seller must make arrangements for the
carriage of the goods to the agreed destination. While the freight is paid by
the seller, it is actually paid
for
by the buyer as freight costs are normally
included by the seller in the total selling price.
The carriage costs will sometimes include the costs of handling and
moving the goods within port or container terminal facilities and the carrier
or terminal operator may well charge these costs to the buyer who receives
the goods.
In these circumstances, the buyer would want to avoid paying for the
same service twice: once to the seller as part of the total selling price and
once independently to the carrier or the terminal operator. The Incoterms®
2010 clearly allocate terminal handling costs in articles A6/B6 of the
relevant Incoterms rules.
vii) String Sales
During the sale of commodities, goods in subject are frequently sold
several times during transit “down a string”. ICC notes that a seller in the
middle of the string does not “ship” the goods because these have already
1 Incoterms 2010, p. 8.