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The following are the list of abbreviations commonly used in business. These abbreviations include abbreviations used in Export, abbreviations in Import, list of antonyms in shipping trade, shipping terms commonly used  and commonly used terms in customs brokering. Popularly used abbreviations in banking, commonly using tax abbreviations and other list of generally used business terms are also included in this article. If you would like to add up more abbreviations to this article which is commonly used in your region, you may write at bottom of this article. Please make sure, you are adding only ‘commonly using abbreviations’ in business, as this category is meant for import and export.

 

U.B.C.      Universal Bulk Carrier

U.S.C.      United States Code

U/A        "Underwriting account, unit of account

U/D        Under Deck

U/W        Under Writer

UAE       United Arab Emirates

UBB        Uniform Balance Book

UBD       Urban Banks Department

UBD       Urban Banks Department

UBIT       Unrelated business income tax

UBTI       Unrelated business taxable income

UB       Unsafe building

UC        Usual Conditions

UCB        Urban Cooperative Bank

UCBs      Urban Cooperative Banks

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UCC        Uniform commercial code

UCE        Unforeseen circumstances excepted

UChiLRev        The University of Chicago Law Review (Journal)

UCN      Uniform Code Number

UCNs      Uniform Code Numbers

UCP 400     earlier version: Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits

UCP 500      Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits

UCPDC     Uniform Customs & Practice for Documentary Credits

UCP     Uniform Customs and Practice for Document Credit

UCP       Uniform Customs Terms

UCR        Unique Consignment Reference

UCR        Usual, customary, and reasonable

UC        Unemployment compensation

UC        Usual Conditions

UDEAC        Central African Customs and Economic   Union

UDEAO      Union  Douanceet  Economiqued' AfriqueOccidentale

UDITPA          Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act

UDR        Unused development rights

UGMA        Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

UIL          Uniform issues list

UIM         Underinsured motorist

UIP         Uncovered interest parity. Sometimes also call uncovered interest rate parity.

UI          Unemployment insurance

UK          United Kingdom

UKASTA    United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association

UKCS     United Kingdom Continental Shelf

ULCC     Ultra Large Crude Carrier

ULC--Uniform Law Commission

ULD       Unit Load Device (airfreight container)

ULPA    Uniform Limited Partnership Act

UL        Universal life

UMRs        Usual Market Requirements

UM        Uninsured motorist

UN         United Nations

 

UNAIDS       United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS

UNCED         United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

UNCITRAL        United Nations Commission of International Trade Law

UNCITRAL       United Nations Centre for International Trade Law

UNCITRAL           United Nations Center on International Arbitration Law

UNCTAD        United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNCTC              United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations

UNDP      United Nations Development Program

UNECE      United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UNECLAC             United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

UNEP           United Nations Environmental Program

UNESCO               United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNFCCC             United Nations Convention on Climate Change

UNFCCC               United Nations Framework Convention and Climate Control

UNFPA           United Nations Population Fund

UNICEF            United Nation's Childrens' Fund

UNICO         Umbrella  Organisation for Large

UNIDO     United Nations Industrial Development Organization

UNI          Undistributed net income

UNME     Urban Non-Manual Employees

UNO        United Nations Organization

UNSD       United Nations Statistics Division

UNU        United Nations University

UOP         Unit of property

UPE         Unreimbursed partnership expenses

UPGRAD     Upgradation

UPOV            International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants

UPS        United Parcel Service

UPSC       Union Public Service Commission

UPT         Upper-tier partnership

UPU          Universal Postal Union

UR              Uruguay Round. 

URAA        Uruguay Round Agreements Act

URC         Uniform Rules for Collection

URCB     Uniform Rules for Contract Bonds

URCG    Uniform Rules Contract Guarantees

URDG      Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees

URL           Universal Resource Locator (Internet)

URLA         Uniform residential loan application

USAID   United States Agency for International Development.

USC        Unless Sooner Commenced

USCIS         U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service

USDA       United States Agriculture Department

USERRA         Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994

USFDA      U.S. Food and Drug Administration

USFI     United State financial institution

USF       Usable square feet

USITC    U.S. International Trade Commission

USOA       Uniform system of accounts

USP       unique selling point

USPAP      Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice

USPTO      U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

USRPHC    U.S. real property holding corporation

USRPHC        U.S. real property holding company

USRPI            U.S. real property interest

USTR     United States Trade Representative

UT     Usual Terms

UTC     Uniform Trust Code

UTD      Under trust dated

UTI          Unit Trust of India

UTP       Uncertain tax position

UTs        Union Territories

UU         Unless Used

UUIWCTAUTC   Unless Used In Which Case Time Actually Used To Count

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The above are the list of abbreviations commonly used in business. These abbreviations include abbreviations used in Export, abbreviations in Import, list of abbreviations in shipping trade, expansions used in freight forwarding business and commonly used terms in customs brokering. Popularly used abbreviations in banking, commonly using tax abbreviations and other list of generally used business terms are also included in this article. If you would like to add up more abbreviations commonly used in your region, you may write such enlargements below. Please make sure, you are adding only ‘commonly using abbreviations’ in business, as this category is dealt with international trade.

 

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