Sources, editions and licences

Methodology

Every code, name and attribute in this section is imported by script from a published data file; nothing is typed in by hand. Guide text is written by hand, cites its sources and takes its numbers from the imported data. A primary source is a file published by the data owner; a secondary source is a public copy or conversion of the official file, used where the official download could not be fetched when this edition was built.

ISO does not publish ISO 3166 and ISO 4217 under an open licence, so those codes are taken from Unicode CLDR, which is openly licensed and carries the same codes. Names come from CLDR and can differ from ISO's wording. Incoterms are shown as code and name only.

Not published: UN/ECE code lists

The following UN/ECE lists are not published in this section until their reuse terms are confirmed: UN/ECE Recommendation 20 unit codes, UN/ECE Recommendation 21 package type codes and UN/LOCODE location codes.

UNECE's own terms page could not be read when this edition was built (unece.org answers automated requests with an interactive "verify you are human" check), and the general Terms of Use of the United Nations website allow copying material from that site for personal, non-commercial use only, without a right to redistribute it. Whether those or more open terms apply to the UNECE code lists is not known, so the lists, the unit converter that uses Rec 20 conversion factors and the guides about these lists are held back. They will be added once UNECE's reuse terms are confirmed.

The Incoterms list stays published: it holds only the 11 three-letter abbreviations and rule names (no ICC rule text), taken from the UN/CEFACT vocabulary on GitHub, whose repository carries no licence file.

Corrections

Found an error? Check the official publication named on the list's page first: it is the authoritative version, and this site's values are imported from it by script, never edited by hand.