Article by article comparison of Incoterms® 2020 Rules

This Practice Note contains an article by article comparison of the Incoterms® 2020 rules, produced here with the permission of ICC Publishing SA. These and other ICC publications are available from ICC Publishing SA, 33-43 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, France and from ICC United Kingdom, 1st Floor, 1-3 Staple Inn London, WC1V 7QH, United Kingdom, and www.iccwbo.org.

Incoterms® 2020 rules came into force on 1 January 2020, and updated Incoterms® 2010 rules to reflect changes to the market over the last decade. For an introduction on Incoterms® 2010 valid up until that date, see Practice Note: Incoterms® 2010—introduction [Archived].

This Practice Note displays an article by article comparison of the Incoterms® 2020 rules where each article is compared separately across all Incoterms. For a comparison table which considers all of the Incoterms® 2020 articles together, see:

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General obligations

This table compares the seller’s general obligations under A1 General obligations for each Incoterm and the buyer’s obligations under B1 General obligations for each Incoterm. Notably,