The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) recommends that the abbreviations of the trade terms annexed here to be accepted and used by Governments, international organizations and business whenever these trade terms are referred to in abbreviated form and mutually promote their use in support of a common approach to trade facilitation. 

This recommendation implies: 

For participants in international trade and transport: 

• to accept and implement the 3-letter abbreviations as an alphabetic code for 

Incoterms ® 2010; 

For Governments, international organizations and national trade facilitation bodies: 

• to accept and encourage the implementation of the 3-letter abbreviations as an alphabetic code for Incoterms ® 2010. 

Act

ECE/TRADE/C/CEFACT/2011/5

Scope

This Recommendation establishes a common code list for the trade terms known as "Incoterms ® 2010". The code list is identical to the trade term abbreviations contained in the ICC publication 715, Incoterms ® 2010 (Entry into force: 1 January 2011).