DAP
Delivered at Place
Under DAP (Incoterms® 2020), the seller delivers the goods to a named place in the buyer's country, ready for unloading. The buyer unloads the goods, clears them for import, and pays the import duties and taxes.
In plain words
The seller pays the transport and carries the risk all the way to the named place, for example the buyer's warehouse. The goods stay on the arriving truck or container until the buyer unloads them. DAP works for all modes of transport.
Import clearance is the buyer's job. If the goods wait at the border or the port because the buyer's customs work is late, the extra costs, like storage or demurrage, are usually the buyer's. Write the delivery place as exactly as possible, for example a full address.
Example from real shipping
A Turkish producer sells kitchen cabinets “DAP buyer's warehouse, Bucharest, Incoterms® 2020”. The producer arranges a truck from Turkey to Bucharest and pays the transport. At the warehouse, the buyer's staff unload the truck. The buyer's customs broker handles the import clearance, and the buyer pays the import VAT.
Related terms
- DDPUnder DDP (Incoterms® 2020), the seller does almost everything: it delivers the goods to the named place in the buyer's country, clears them for import, and pays the import duties and taxes.
- CIFCIF (Incoterms® 2020) is like CFR, but the seller must also buy cargo insurance for the buyer. The risk still passes to the buyer when the goods are loaded on the ship at the port of shipment.
- Landed costLanded cost is the total cost of getting a product to your door: the price of the goods plus freight, insurance, duties, taxes, and all other fees on the way.
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