The calls Incoterms (International Commercial Terms / we Have International of Trade) they are to define, inside of the structure of a purchase contract and international sale, the rights and obligations reciprocal of the exporter and of the importer, establishing a group-pattern of definitions and determining rules and neutral practices, as for instance: where the exporter should give the merchandise, who pays the freight, who is the responsible for the recruiting of the insurance.

Finally, Incoterms have that aim at, once it is rules international, impartial, of character uniformizador, that constitute the whole base of the international businesses and they aim at to promote her harmony.

In the reality, they don't impose and yes they propose the understanding between salesperson and buyer, as for the necessary tasks for displacement of the merchandise of the place where is elaborated to the place of final destiny (consumption area): packing, internal transports, export licenses and of import, movement in terminals, transport and safe international etc.

After attachés to the purchase contracts and sale, Incoterms start to have legal force, with her juridical meaning I need and indeed certain. Like this, they simplify and they activate the elaboration of the terms of the purchase contracts and sale.