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Importing goods

Know who pays when the shipment moves

Incoterms decide where a seller's responsibility ends and yours begins, and that choice changes your freight cost, customs paperwork and insurance exposure.

Shipping containers stacked at a port terminal at dawn, with a dock worker in a high-visibility vest checking a clipboard beside a crane leg

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