The buyer could nominate say the site of a new factory they are building for their client, it could be the container terminal in the destination country, or somewhere else. DPU is the old DAT rule but expanded to mean any place to avoid the misunderstanding of the 2010 rule where many took it literally from its title to just mean a terminal, even though it meant anywhere from an open field to a covered warehouse including the buyer’s warehouse.Ī common mistake with DAP and DDP especially is the reverse of the misunderstanding with the old DAT, to believe that the destination will always be the buyer’s premises, but this need not be the case. The DPU rule goes one step further, requiring the seller to unload the goods from the arriving means of transport.
This usually would be a truck but could be a train, a barge or even a ship and unlikely though it might be a chartered aircraft. The DAP and DDP rules require the seller to take on almost the maximum responsibility of placing the goods at the disposal of the buyer at the agreed destination place, or point within that place, but not unloaded from the arriving means of transport. These matters should be specified in the contract. The rules do not refer to when the payment is to be made (before shipment, immediately after shipment, thirty days after shipment, half now half later, or whatever) or how it is to be paid (prepayment, against an email of copy documents, on presentation of documents to a bank under a letter of credit, or other arrangement). In each of the rules the buyer must pay the price for the goods as stated in the contract of sale.
The rules do not define what “electronic form” is, it can be anything from a pdf file to blockchain or some format yet to be developed in the future. In each of the eleven rules the seller must provide the goods and their commercial invoice as required by the contract of sale and any other evidence of conformity such as an analysis certificate or weighbridge document etc that might be relevant and specified in the contract.Įach of the rules also provides that any document can be in paper or electronic form as agreed to in the contract, or if the contract makes no mention of this then as is customary. *NEW* Delivered at Place Unloaded (DPU).
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