DAP

How it is used

Usable for any transport mode and very common in road freight from Turkey to Europe. It is written with the delivery place, such as 'DAP Lyon warehouse'. The buyer unloads the goods and pays import duty and VAT.

Example sentences

1. Our standard terms for EU customers are DAP, so we arrange the truck all the way to their warehouse.

2. Under DAP the customer pays import VAT, so they need their own customs broker.

Common collocations

• DAP terms
• DAP named place
• deliver DAP
• DAP price

Related terms

• IncotermsA set of standard trade terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce that tell the buyer and seller who arranges and pays for transport, and where risk passes between them.
• DDPShort for Delivered Duty Paid: the Incoterms rule with the most obligations for the seller, who delivers to the named place cleared for import and pays all duties and taxes.
• CIFShort for Cost, Insurance and Freight: a sea-only Incoterms rule in which the seller pays freight and minimum insurance to the destination port, but risk passes to the buyer once the goods are on board.
• road freightThe transport of goods by trucks and trailers on roads, used for domestic deliveries and for international routes over land.
• customs clearanceThe process of getting official approval from customs for goods to enter or leave a country, including declaring them, paying duties and passing any inspections.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• DAP · International Trade

More terms: Incoterms

• FOB
• EXW