Incotrms 2000 国际贸易术语解释通则.ppt

Incoterms 2000 Listening, Reading and Discussing TEXT: Sending goods from one country to another, as part of commercial transaction, can be a risky business. If they are lost or damaged, or if delivery does not take place for some other reason, the climate of confidence between parties may degenerate to the point where a law suit is brought. Therefore, above all, sellers and buyers in international contracts want their deals to be successfully completed. If, when drawing up their contract, buyer and seller have some commonly understood rules to specifically refer to, they can be sure of defining their respective responsibilities simply and safely. In so doing they eliminate any possibility of misunderstanding and subsequent dispute. The purpose of Incoterms is to provide a set of international rules for the interpretation of the most commonly used trade terms in foreign trade. Thus, the uncertainties of different interpretations of such terms in different countries can be avoided or at least reduced to a considerable degree. Frequently parties to a contract are unaware of the different trading practices in the respective countries of their partners. This can give rise to misunderstandings, disputes and litigation with all the waste of time and money that this entails. In order to remedy these problems, the International Chamber of Commerce first published in 1936 a set of international rules for the interpretation of trade terms. These rules were known as Incoterms 1936. Amendments and additions were later made in 1953,1967,1976,1980,1990 and presently 2000 in order to bring the rules in line with current international trade practices. Incoterms have been revised to take account of changes in transportation techniques, such as the unitization of cargo in containers, multimodal transport and roll on-roll off traffic with road vehicles and railway wagons in “short-sea” maritime transport----- certain terms have been consolidated