C
| Abbreviation | Full Form |
|---|---|
| C & E | Customs & Excise |
| C & F | Cost & Freight |
| C & I | Cost and Insurance |
| C of O | Certificate of Origin |
| C&D | Collected & Delivered |
| C&E | Customs & Excise |
| C&F | Cost & Freight |
| c.i.f. | Cost, Insurance and Freight |
| C/D | Commercial Dock or consular declaration |
| C/I | Consular Invoice/Certificate of Insurance |
| C/N | Consignment note, cover note, case of need, combined nomenclature |
| C/nee | Consignee |
| C/NOR | Consignor |
| C/P | Charter party |
| C/S | Currency surcharge |
| C/V | Certificate of Value |
| C/VO | Certificate of Value and Origin |
| C2B | Consumer-to-business |
| CA | Chartered Accountant |
| CA | Compensatory Agreement |
| CA | Current account (disambiguation)Current Account |
| CAA | Civil Aviation Authority |
| CAAC | Customs and Allied Affairs Committee |
| CAB | Civil Aeronautics Board (USA) |
| CACM | Central American Common Market |
| CAD | Cash Against Documents |
| CAD | Cash against documents/Commercial Agents Directive/Canadian Dollar |
| CAF | Currency adjustment factor |
| CAF | Currency Adjustment Factor for sea freight rates |
| CAGR | Compound annual growth rate |
| CAN | Customs Assigned Number |
| CAO | Chief Administrative Officer or Chief Accounting Officer |
| CAP | Common Agricultural Policy |
| CAPEX | Capital Expenditure |
| CAPM | Capital asset pricing model |
| CARICOM | Caribbean Common Market |
| Carr Fwd | Carriage Forward |
| CB | Container Base |
| CBD | Cash Before Delivery |
| CBEC | Central Board of Excise and Customs |
| CBI | Confederation of British Industry |
| cbm | Cubic metre |
| CBOE | Chicago Board Options Exchange |
| CBOT | Chicago Board of Trade |
| CC | Continuation clause, Civil Commotions |
| cc | Current cost, cubic capacity, customs clearance, cubic centimetre, carbon copy |
| CC & S | Riots, Civil Commotions & Strikes |
| CC/O | Certificate of consignment/origin |
| CCC | Customs Clearance Certificate |
| CCC | Customs Co-operation Council |
| CCCN | Customs Co-operation Council Nomenclature (formerly (BTN) Brussels Tariff Nomenclature) |
| CCLN | Consignment note control label number |
| CCM | Caribbean Common Market |
| CCP | Customs Clearance Permit |
| CCT | Common Customs Tariff (within the EU) |
| CD | Customs declaration |
| CDM | Change and Data Management |
| CDO | Collateralized debt obligation or Chief Data Officer |
| CDS | Credit default swap |
| CDV | Current domestic value |
| CE | Central Excise |
| CE | Community European – quality mark on goods |
| CEA | Central Excise Authority |
| CEC | Chartered Engineer Certificate |
| CEMAC | Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States |
| CEN | European Standards Office |
| CEO | Chief executive officer |
| Cert | Certificate |
| CET | Central European Time |
| CET | Central Excise Tariff |
| cf | Cubic feet |
| CFA | Chartered Financial Analyst |
| CFC | Consumption of fixed capital |
| CFCT | Cash Flow Cycle Time |
| CFD | Contract for difference |
| CFM | Certified Financial Manager |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
| CFR | Cost & Freight (named port of destination) |
| CFS | Consolidated Financial Statement |
| CFS | Container freight station |
| CFTC | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (USA) |
| CgePd | Carriage paid |
| CH | Custom House |
| Ch Fwd | Charges forward |
| Ch of C | Chamber of commerce |
| ch pd | Carriage paid |
| Ch Pd | Charges Paid |
| ch ppd | Carriage pre-paid |
| CHAPS | Clearing House Automated Payment System |
| CHIEF | Customs handling of import/export freight |
| CHIPS | Clearing House Inter-bank Payments System (USA) |
| CIA | Certified Internal Auditor |
| CIE | Customs input entry, Coras Iompair Eirraen (Irish Railways) |
| CIF | Cost, Insurance and Freight |
| CIF | Cost Insurance Freight |
| CIF | Cost Insurance With Freight |
| CIF | Cost, Insurance & Freight |
| CIF | Cost, Insurance & Freight (named port of destination) |
| CIF & C | Cost, Insurance, Freight & Commission |
| CIF & E | Cost, Insurance, Freight & Exchange |
| CIF & I | Cost, Insurance, Freight & Interest |
| CIFC & I | Cost, Insurance, Freight, Commission & Interest |
| CIM | Contract of movement by International Rail |
| CIM | Convention Internationale Marchandises Chemins de Fer (International rail carriage receipt) |
| CIMA | Chartered Institute of Management Accountants |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer |
| CIP | Carriage and Insurance Paid |
| CIP | Carriage/Freight and Insurance paid to (named point) |
| CIPA | Chartered Institute of Patent Agents |
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| CISA | Certified Information Systems Auditor |
| CISO | Chief Information Security Officer |
| CITHA | Confederation of International Trading Houses Associations |
| CKD | Completely knocked down |
| CKD | Completely Knocked Down |
| CKM | Customer Knowledge Management |
| CLECAT | European Liaison Committee of Common Market Forwarders |
| CLO | Chief Legal Officer |
| CMA | Chief Marketing Officer OR Certified Management Accountant |
| CMFB | Committee on monetary, finance and balance of payments statistics |
| CMR | Convention Merchandises Par Routes (conditions for the international carriage of goods by road) |
| CMR | Convention Merchandises Routiers (Conditions for the International carriage of goods by road) |
| CO or C/O | Certificate of Origin, Cash Order |
| COA | Chart of Account |
| COB | Close of Business |
| COC | Cost of Credit or Cost of Capital |
| COC | Central Office of Information |
| Com/I | Commercial invoice |
| COM/I | Commercial Invoice |
| COMECON | Council for Mutual Economic Aid |
| COMESA | Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa |
| COMET | Committee of Middle East Trade |
| COMEX | Commodity Exchange (New York) |
| COMITEXTIL | Co-ordination committee for the textile industry in the EC |
| CoO | Certificate of Origin |
| COO | Chief Operating Officer |
| COP | Certificate Of Posting |
| Corp. | Corporation |
| COT | Customer’s own transport |
| COU | Clip-on unit |
| CP | Commonwealth Preference, commercial paper |
| CPA | Certified Public Accountant |
| CPA | Claims Payable Abroad |
| CPC | Customs Procedure Code |
| CPD | Charter Pays Dues |
| Cpd | Charterer pays dues |
| CPF | Clean Report of Findings |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CPO | Chief People Officer also Chief Procurement Officer |
| CPQ | Configure, Price, Quote |
| CPT | Carriage paid to |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| Cr | Credit |
| CR | Current Rate, Carriers Risk, Compound Risk |
| CRF | Clean Report of Findings |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| CRN | Customs Registered Number |
| CSC | Container Safety Convention |
| CSI | Corporate Social Investment |
| CSO | Chief Security Officer |
| CSR | Corporate social responsibility |
| CT | Countertrade, Community Transport |
| CT | Community Transit |
| CTA | Call – to – Action |
| CTA | Call to action |
| CTA | Customs Tariff Act, 1975 |
| CTC | Cost to company |
| CTC | Customs Tariff Code, now harmonised virtually world-wide |
| Ctge | Cartage |
| CTH | Customs Tariff Heading |
| CTL | Constructive Total Loss |
| CTL(O) | Constructive total loss (only) |
| CTO | Chief Technology Officer |
| CTO | Combined Transport Operator |
| CTR | Click – Through Rate |
| CUSIP | Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures number |
| CVD | Countervailing Duty |
| CVP | Cost Volume Profit |
| CWE | Cleared without examination |
| cwo | Cash with order |
| CWO | Cash With Order |
| CX | Customer Experience |
| CX/UX | Customer Experience/User Experience |
| CXO | Any chief officer(s), x being a placeholder. |
| Cy | Currency |