Reference · Incoterms® 2020

Where risk and cost
actually pass.

All eleven Incoterms® 2020 rules — and, beside each, what the term means in execution: bankability, the document a financier holds as collateral, whether the insurance is adequate, and who carries customs and CBAM. Select a term to see where risk and cost move between seller and buyer.

Any mode of transport
Sea & inland waterway
Seller’s premisesBuyer’s destination
Risk
Cost
Seller bears risk Seller bears cost Buyer bears

How to read this. The filled portion of each bar is the seller’s responsibility; the open portion is the buyer’s. The marker shows where that responsibility passes. Where the two markers sit apart — as in CFR, CIF, CPT and CIP — risk and cost transfer at different points, the single most misread feature of the rules.