Delivered at Frontier

Delivered at Frontier (DAF) is an Incoterms trade rule — previously included in Incoterms 2000 but replaced by Delivered at Place (DAP) in Incoterms 2010 — specifying that the seller is responsible for delivering goods to a named point at the frontier (border) of the importing country, cleared for export but not yet cleared for import in the destination country, with all transportation costs and risks up to that point borne by the seller. The buyer assumes responsibility and risk from the frontier point onward — including import customs clearance, duties, and inland transportation to the final destination. DAF terms were particularly used in land border trade — common in Eastern European cross-border commerce and for landlocked countries. In the modern Incoterms 2020 framework, DAF has been replaced by DAP (Delivered at Place), which more flexibly accommodates any named destination point rather than specifically a frontier/border point. For Indian trade practitioners dealing with land border commerce — particularly India-Nepal, India-Bangladesh, India-Bhutan, and India-Pakistan trade routes when active — understanding DAF terminology remains relevant for interpreting older contracts that may reference the term, and for understanding the risk transfer dynamics in border delivery trade that remain conceptually similar under the updated DAP Incoterms framework.