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  2. Dimensional weight - Wikipedia

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    Dimensional weight is commonly used for invoicing by air freight forwarders, truck carriers, as well as all commercial airlines worldwide. In 2007, DHL, FedEx, United Parcel Service and USPS adopted the dimensional weight system for ground services.

  3. Freight rate - Wikipedia

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    A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport ( truck , ship , train , aircraft ), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.

  4. Less-than-truckload shipping - Wikipedia

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    In these cases, the shipper "rents" a trailer to transport their product where it needs to go, typically paying a "per mile rate" from the carrier. However, with LTL, a single trailer can carry several different shippers' shipments and since each shipment is technically "less than a truckload" they would consider that to be LTL.

  5. List of countries by tariff rate - Wikipedia

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    Global map of countries by tariff rate, applied, weighted mean, all products (%), 2021, according to World Bank. This is a list of countries by tariff rate. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. Import duty refers to taxes levied on imported goods, capital and ...

  6. DHL - Wikipedia

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    DHL (German pronunciation: [deːhaːˈʔɛl]) is a German logistics company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. [5] It provides courier, package delivery and express mail ...

  7. Harmonized System - Wikipedia

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    To ensure harmonization, the Contracting Parties to the Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, have agreed to base their national tariff schedules on the HS Nomenclature and Legal Notes. Parties are permitted to subdivide the HS Nomenclature beyond 6-digits and add their own Legal Notes according to their own ...

  8. Currency adjustment factor - Wikipedia

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    It is applied as a percentage on top of the base exchange rate, which is calculated as the average exchange rate for the previous three months. Due to this added charge, shippers tend to enter into "all inclusive" contracts at one price that accounts for all applicable charges, to limit the effect of the CAF. [ 2 ]

  9. DHL Group - Wikipedia

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    DHL Group was the largest logistics company worldwide in 2022. [5] [better source needed] DHL Group is the successor to the German mail authority Deutsche Bundespost, the oldest modern postal service in the world, [6] tracing its roots to the middle ages. It was privatized in 1995 and became a fully independent company in 2000.