Non-standard aspects of Incoterms® application and ways for further international trade customs unification

Konstantin Vladimirovich Kholopov and Andrej Moiseevich Golubchik
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Konstantin Vladimirovich Kholopov: Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Moscow, Russia
Andrej Moiseevich Golubchik: Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Moscow, Russia

Russian Foreign Economic Journal, 2016, issue 11, 110-118

Abstract: 80 years have passed since the first edition of the well-known trade terms and conditions, the Incoterms, which has at least some relation to any foreign economic activity. The Incoterms has become an integral part of the business practices as commonly accepted and acknowledged code of business customs. It facilitated considerably foreign trade transactions of the most varied forms and contents. However, the Incoterms was not only entrenched in business practices as a backbone of contractual work but has been evolving, with taking the most unexpected forms and found application among carriers and freight forwarders. In the article, the authors present the results of their study of this phenomenon and give suggestions for editorial alterations to Incoterms®2020.

Keywords: Incoterms; terms of delivery; international trade contracts; carrier; consignor; freight owner; consignee. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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