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Free shipping is a marketing tactic used primarily by online vendors and mail-order catalogs as a sales strategy to attract customers. [1] Online sales model [ edit ]
v. t. e. When used in foreign trade, a commercial invoice is a customs document. It is used as a customs declaration provided by the person or corporation that is exporting an item across international borders. [1] Although there is no standard format, the document must include a few specific pieces of information such as the parties involved ...
The word "call" is a shortened form of "call for", which means "to come and get", so "will call" literally means " (the customer) will call for (come and get) the goods." [1] In a linguistic process similar to initial-stress derived nominalization, the first syllable of the noun phrase is usually stressed (" will call") rather than the second ...
v. t. e. A proof of delivery ( POD) is a document that substantiates that a carrier has satisfied its terms of a contract of carriage for cargo by confirmation of the recipient or consignee. [1] When the sender sends multiple documents through the mail, there is a possibility of some not reaching the intended recipient.
e. The Incoterms or International Commercial Terms are a series of pre-defined commercial terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) relating to international commercial law. [1] Incoterms define the responsibilities of exporters and importers in the arrangement of shipments and the transfer of liability involved at various ...
In contract law, the term "boilerplate language" or "boilerplate clause" describes the parts of a contract that are considered standard.A standard form contract or boilerplate contract is a contract between two parties, where the terms and conditions of the contract are set by one of the parties, and the other party has little or no ability to negotiate more favorable terms and is thus placed ...
FOB (free on board) is a term in international commercial law specifying at what point respective obligations, costs, and risk involved in the delivery of goods shift from the seller to the buyer under the Incoterms standard published by the International Chamber of Commerce. FOB is only used in non-containerized sea freight or inland waterway ...
A request for quotation ( RfQ) is a business process in which a company or public entity requests a quote from a supplier for the purchase of specific products or services. RfQ generally means the same thing as Call for bids (CfB) and Invitation for bid (IfB). [1] An RfQ typically involves more than the price per item.