What the buyer specifies
- Yellow or white maize and intended feed or food use
- Crop year and genetically modified status where required
- Moisture, test weight, foreign matter and damaged-kernel limits
- Aflatoxin and other mycotoxin limits
- Quantity, bulk or bagged format and shipment window
- Destination, delivery rule, inspection, sampling and payment structure
Mycotoxin limits are safety-critical. Origin certificates do not replace contractual sampling, independent testing or destination controls.
Origin and delivery planning
Suitable origins are assessed against the buyer’s specification, quantity, shipment window, destination and landed economics. The live offer identifies the proposed producer or seller, country of origin, load point, quantity and route.
Each proposed transaction is reviewed using the actual origin, counterparties, banks, vessel or carrier, route and destination.
The parties select the appropriate Incoterms® 2020 rule only after confirming the transport mode and exact named port or place. FOB, CFR or CIF may suit sea or inland-waterway movements; FCA, CPT or CIP may suit containerised or multimodal movements. Food-grade and feed-grade cargoes must remain clearly identified in the offer and contract.
Inspection and destination requirements
The file may include a certificate of analysis, phytosanitary certificate, fumigation evidence where required, certificate of origin, independent weight and sampling records, mycotoxin test results and transport documents.
Product, import, inspection, customs and documentation requirements are confirmed for the actual destination, importer and declared end use.