Incoterms 2010: The Prior Edition and Its Articles
The Incoterms 2010 rules, the A1 to A10 order that differs from 2020, DAT, and why contracts still on the 2010 edition remain enforceable.
Incoterms 2010 is the edition that preceded Incoterms 2020, and it remains fully usable: any contract that names it incorporates it, and a term reading CIF Rotterdam Incoterms 2010 is enforceable today.
The full article will set out the eleven 2010 rules including DAT, Delivered at Terminal, the rule renamed DPU in 2020, and the article order that differs from the current edition. Under Incoterms 2010 delivery sat at A4, transfer of risks at A5, costs at A6 and the delivery document at A8, so a legacy clause that cross-references an article number by digit alone points somewhere different when read against the 2020 text.
The two substantive differences that most often matter are the CIP insurance level, which sat at Institute Cargo Clauses (C) in 2010 and moved to Clauses (A) in 2020, and the absence of any on-board bill of lading mechanism for FCA. The current edition is covered in Incoterms 2020 .